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Housekeeping is the management and routine support activities of running and maintaining an organized physical institution occupied or used by people, like a house, ship, hospital or factory, such as cleaning, tidying/organizing, cooking, shopping, and bill payment.
Housekeeping by the homemaker is the care and control of property, ensuring its maintenance, proper use and appearance. In a private home a maid or housekeeper is sometimes employed to do some of the housekeeping. Housework is work done by the act of housekeeping. Some housekeeping is housecleaning and some housekeeping is home chores.
Housekeeper – A housekeeper usually denotes a female senior employee. Kitchen maid – A worker who works for the cook. Lackey – A runner who may be overworked and underpaid. Lady's maid – A woman's personal attendant, helping her with her clothes, shoes, accessories, hair, and cosmetics. Lady-in-waiting - Royal Lady's maid
In the great houses of the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the housekeeper could be a woman of considerable power in the domestic arena. [citation needed] The housekeeper of times past had her room (or rooms) cleaned by junior staff, her meals prepared and laundry taken care of, and with the butler presided over dinner in the Servants' Hall.
According to the Cambridge English dictionary a "cleaner" is "a person whose job is to clean houses, offices, public places, etc.:"; [1] the Collins dictionary states that: "A cleaner is someone who is employed to clean the rooms and furniture inside a building."
Housekeeper (domestic worker), an individual responsible for the cleaning and maintenance of the interior of a residence Janitor , a professional who takes care of institutional buildings Entertainment
Image credits: ragby #8. Clean the things you use to clean other things. Replace your kitchen sponge at least twice a month. Wash your towels weekly. Leave the door to your washing machine open ...
A 1943 photograph of a charwoman in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Charwoman, chargirl, charlady and char are occupational terms referring to a paid part-time worker who comes into a house or other building to clean it for a few hours of a day or week, as opposed to a maid, who usually lives as part of the household within the structure of domestic service.