HOUSEKEEPING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does housekeeping mean? 

• HOUSEKEEPING (noun)
  The noun HOUSEKEEPING has 1 sense:

1. the work of cleaning and running a house

  Familiarity information: HOUSEKEEPING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOUSEKEEPING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The work of cleaning and running a house

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

housekeeping; housework

Hypernyms ("housekeeping" is a kind of...):

work (activity directed toward making or doing something)

Derivation:

housekeep (maintain a household; take care of all business related to a household)

 Context examples 

Accordingly, I told Agnes about my declaration of poverty, about the cookery-book, the housekeeping accounts, and all the rest of it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

An exoplanet may seem like the perfect spot to set up housekeeping, but before you go there, take a closer look at its star.

(Even 'Goldilocks' exoplanets need a well-behaved star, National Science Foundation )

These housekeeping proteins comprised about 75% of total protein mass.

(Revealing the human proteome, NIH)

I found that they had set up housekeeping together at this place on the line that she had to pass for the station.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Beth is going to be with me a great deal, and the other girls will drop in now and then to laugh at my housekeeping struggles.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

This fellow could speak English and did his housekeeping for him.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My greatest danger, perhaps, in housekeeping, may be quite the other way, in doing too much, and being too careless of expense.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Their housekeeping will be nothing at all.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Her home and her housekeeping, her parish and her poultry, and all their dependent concerns, had not yet lost their charms.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I am busy, I need not tell you, arranging things and housekeeping.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)