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housekeep

[ hous-keep ]

verb (used without object)

housekept, housekeeping.
  1. to keep or maintain a house.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of housekeep1

First recorded in 1835–45; back formation from housekeeping
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"Cleaning up, proofing or housekeeping. These are the top three things that we'd always recommend to everyone."

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The couple and their three children, ages 12, 9 and 4, settled in southeast Washington, D.C., where they found jobs making food deliveries and doing housekeeping.

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Proud of myself, I sat down to enjoy a treat: the macaron on the bedside table that housekeeping must have left in the room we were filming in.

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People such as the family whose members lost their housekeeping jobs in the Palisades fire and whose apartment in Altadena burned in the Eaton fire.

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Isabel, unmarried, priggish and devoted to her housekeeping routine, lives alone in her family’s home, ostensibly keeping it safe for the brother who inherited it.

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