housekeeper
IPA: hˈaʊskipɝ
noun
- (now rare) Someone who owns a house as a place of residence; a householder.
- Someone (traditionally a woman) employed to look after the home, typically by managing domestic servants or superintending household management; also someone with equivalent duties in a hotel, institution etc.
- Someone who manages the running of a home, traditionally the female head of the household.
- (colloquial, now rare) Someone who keeps to their house; someone who rarely ventures away from home; an unadventurous person, a homebody.
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Examples of "housekeeper" in Sentences
- Pina, the housekeeper, is an excellent cook, believe me.
- She said her current housekeeper is "absolutely documented to work there."
- Oh the hilarity of a British male live-in housekeeper/nanny serving an American family, right?
- While I agree that hiring a housekeeper is not the complete solution, it is something that can help.
- Simply hiring a housekeeper is only a partial solution for women (and men) who want to have a life outside of their scientific research.
- Sophie (Sandrine Bonnaire) is the new live-in housekeeper of a wealthy family: efficient but maddeningly unresponsive (you suspect they'd like a little more gratitude for their shows of kindness).
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