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词汇 housekeeper
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Definition of housekeeper in English:

housekeeper

noun ˈhaʊskiːpəˈhaʊsˌkipər
  • 1A person employed to manage a household.

    (多指女性)管家

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In this Golden Age, the heroes were neither cops nor outlaws, doctors nor housekeepers, ranch-owners nor lawyers, spies nor mafia hoods.
    • Although she has the support of doctors, nurses and housekeepers, the former First Lady oversees her husband's care, despite the effect it has on her own health.
    • People with occupational exposure to latex include medical professionals, housekeepers, tire manufacturers, and latex industry workers.
    • She manages with a part-time housekeeper, Helen, who moves in full time if she is away.
    • He is a bachelor so he might want to employ a housekeeper and a gardener, but that's up to him.
    • The owner fled the scene before police arrived, leaving the housekeeper and the girls inside their rooms.
    • Similarly, women in domestic service as housekeepers or parlour maids had to make a choice between work and marriage.
    • Personal staff costs - for two butlers, a valet, four chefs, two chauffeurs, eight housekeepers, eight gardeners and a secretariat - are probably another £1m.
    • Even without abuse per se, long hours of isolated, physically exhausting domestic labor for live-in nannies, cooks and housekeepers can extend beyond what most employees would tolerate.
    • Critics from both the right and the left accuse middle-class women of neglecting their children and exploiting the immigrant women they employ as nannies and housekeepers.
    • At a job fair on Sunday, one firm was employing men housekeepers only and offering high remuneration.
    • The striking workers include part-time housekeepers, cooks, ticket takers, ushers, bartenders, concession workers, servers, and conversion and ice crews.
    • He had taken Spanish in high school and also learned a lot from the Hispanic housekeepers his family had employed throughout the years.
    • In the towns, people work as street vendors, in the construction industry, as maids and housekeepers, or as plumbers, electricians, or carpenters.
    • In a scheme being piloted for the first time outside London, affluent city workers can employ Filipino housekeepers, who combine nannying skills with domestic service.
    • They will include chefs, housekeepers and waiters as well as business owners.
    • In other cases, women answered advertisements by foreign tour operators or employment agencies looking for au pairs, models, housekeepers and waitresses.
    • Then rent a fully staffed luxury villa in Mallorca that comes with a butler, chef, housekeeper, maid and gardener.
    • During the fall and winter, cooks, housekeepers, and other attendants saw to the owners' needs.
    • This includes approximately 75,000 workers who serve the rich and very rich in such jobs as limousine drivers, nannies, housekeepers, waiters and bellhops.
    Synonyms
    attendant, retainer
    1. 1.1 A person employed to perform cleaning and other domestic tasks in a hotel or institution.

Derivatives

  • housekeep

  • verbhousekept ˈhaʊskiːpˈhaʊsˌkip
    [no object]dated
    • Do the cleaning and other domestic tasks involved in the running of a household.

      I housekeep for a large local family
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The rain ran in rivers progressively colder as the days went on, sometimes falling as a drizzling shower, other times pouring like the housekeep emptying each day's cleaning bucket of dark water.
      • Jyller just looked at her sternly before answering ‘No, you are too inexperienced to housekeep the General's private rooms, but you will get a chance to serve him in little tasks.’
      • There's an old lady down here, she's about 80, and she housekeeps for her brother and her mother died 50 years ago but she's still wearing her clothes.

Definition of housekeeper in US English:

housekeeper

nounˈhousˌkēpərˈhaʊsˌkipər
  • 1A person employed to manage a household.

    (多指女性)管家

    Example sentencesExamples
    • They will include chefs, housekeepers and waiters as well as business owners.
    • The striking workers include part-time housekeepers, cooks, ticket takers, ushers, bartenders, concession workers, servers, and conversion and ice crews.
    • Then rent a fully staffed luxury villa in Mallorca that comes with a butler, chef, housekeeper, maid and gardener.
    • In the towns, people work as street vendors, in the construction industry, as maids and housekeepers, or as plumbers, electricians, or carpenters.
    • Although she has the support of doctors, nurses and housekeepers, the former First Lady oversees her husband's care, despite the effect it has on her own health.
    • People with occupational exposure to latex include medical professionals, housekeepers, tire manufacturers, and latex industry workers.
    • In this Golden Age, the heroes were neither cops nor outlaws, doctors nor housekeepers, ranch-owners nor lawyers, spies nor mafia hoods.
    • Even without abuse per se, long hours of isolated, physically exhausting domestic labor for live-in nannies, cooks and housekeepers can extend beyond what most employees would tolerate.
    • Critics from both the right and the left accuse middle-class women of neglecting their children and exploiting the immigrant women they employ as nannies and housekeepers.
    • He is a bachelor so he might want to employ a housekeeper and a gardener, but that's up to him.
    • The owner fled the scene before police arrived, leaving the housekeeper and the girls inside their rooms.
    • This includes approximately 75,000 workers who serve the rich and very rich in such jobs as limousine drivers, nannies, housekeepers, waiters and bellhops.
    • Personal staff costs - for two butlers, a valet, four chefs, two chauffeurs, eight housekeepers, eight gardeners and a secretariat - are probably another £1m.
    • In a scheme being piloted for the first time outside London, affluent city workers can employ Filipino housekeepers, who combine nannying skills with domestic service.
    • During the fall and winter, cooks, housekeepers, and other attendants saw to the owners' needs.
    • At a job fair on Sunday, one firm was employing men housekeepers only and offering high remuneration.
    • In other cases, women answered advertisements by foreign tour operators or employment agencies looking for au pairs, models, housekeepers and waitresses.
    • He had taken Spanish in high school and also learned a lot from the Hispanic housekeepers his family had employed throughout the years.
    • She manages with a part-time housekeeper, Helen, who moves in full time if she is away.
    • Similarly, women in domestic service as housekeepers or parlour maids had to make a choice between work and marriage.
    Synonyms
    attendant, retainer
    1. 1.1 A person employed to perform cleaning and other domestic tasks in a hotel or institution.
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