verbWord forms: -keeps, -keeping or -kept(intransitive)
to run a household or act as a housekeeper
housekeep in American English
(ˈhausˌkip)
intransitive verbWord forms: -kept, -keeping
to keep or maintain a house
Word origin
[1835–45; back formation from housekeeping]This word is first recorded in the period 1835–45. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: catch-up, crosshead, hybridize, placement, serial