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Housekeeping   /hˈaʊskˌipɪŋ/   Listen
Housekeeping

noun
1.
The work of cleaning and running a house.  Synonym: housework.


Housekeep

verb
1.
Maintain a household; take care of all business related to a household.



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"Housekeeping" Quotes from Famous Books



... going to manage it, and he expects to shake down enough to start us housekeeping, but, of course, that is strictly under your hat, and I pray you do not mention it. I think we can get Mr. Erlanger to let us use the New York Theatre if we promise not to damage the fixtures. He lets every ...
— The Sorrows of a Show Girl • Kenneth McGaffey
... looking around as he chewed. The spotless brick floor and the starched curtains at the windows, the shining copper pans hung beside the huge fireplace, were proof of Becky Boozer's housekeeping. ...
— Mr. Wicker's Window • Carley Dawson
... enough for women to do if they are housekeeping, and with sewing, knitting and what recreation we take out of doors, we fill in the time very well. It is much better and pleasanter to be employed, and the time passes much more rapidly than when one is idle, and I for one enjoy the change of work and the winter's outlook ...
— A Woman who went to Alaska • May Kellogg Sullivan
... entered a house, Peter could hear him bumping and rattling among the furnishings, while the black householders stood outside the door and watched him disturb their housekeeping arrangements. ...
— Birthright - A Novel • T.S. Stribling
... Brandur gave up housekeeping and of his own volition turned over the farm to his daughter and son-in-law. With them he lived to enjoy many years of good health. Never again did he take his daily walk out to the haystack to feel the hay. But he was able to take his sip of brandy to his dying day and repeat ...
— Seven Icelandic Short Stories • Various


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