Definition of housekeeping in English:

housekeeping

noun ˈhaʊskiːpɪŋˈhaʊsˌkipɪŋ

mass noun

1The management of household affairs.
she did as much of the cooking and housekeeping as she could
Example sentencesExamples
- Thus skills were taught with regard to childcare, cooking, housekeeping, handicrafts, raising chickens, cattle and pigs, growing vegetables and fruits.
- I am able to stay at home while both my parents work; I help them with housekeeping and some cooking.
- And, the Marina turned a great leveller as hotel employees cutting across echelons - from general manager to housekeeping staffer - joined hands to give the beach a face-lift.
- Margrith has trained young, aspiring hospital and old age home managers to be, in housekeeping, specializing in cooking.
- As well as having to cater for more than 100 people each day, she had to organise cleaning and housekeeping for residents, manage a licensed bar, look after hospitality services and produce menus in Braille.
- I've met many more British women who really understand the details of housekeeping.
- He is in control of the money coming into the household and the amount that is available for housekeeping, she has to manage the daily expenditure.
- Moreover, the content of the magazines still deals with typical women's issues, such as beauty, cooking and housekeeping.
- The facility will provide 24-hour staffing, assistance with medication, housekeeping, laundry, meal service and exercise and activity programs.
- Although this column, like its predecessors, devoted some space to fashion tips and general good housekeeping, it did begin to bring discussions of women's role in Ireland out of the purely domestic sphere.
- She was in her 90th year but insisted on doing her own baking and housekeeping.
- ‘For the last two years I have not had to bother about cooking and housekeeping, the main worries of a housewife,’ says Mrs. Kamath.
- Still, if it wasn't for the team, we would only be pestering our partners or getting on with the decorating and housekeeping!
- While staying at Maitri, the Indian station, she was obliged to perform all duties, including cooking, clearing snow, burning garbage and housekeeping.
- And if you have a housekeeper, you know once your housekeeper comes, you're probably not inclined to do heavy cleaning, maybe light housekeeping.
- Helene employed household help, but Cullman's German housewives prided themselves on their industriousness and housekeeping without servants.
- They stopped being taught things like ironing, housekeeping, serving.
- For her, hospital management was simply good housekeeping.
- While the definition of women's work has expanded, that of men's work has not, and women who work full-time outside the home are still expected to do all the cooking and housekeeping.
- I think housekeeping is closely linked to homemaking.
Synonyms
household management, domestic work, domestic duties, homemaking, the running of the home
home economics, domestic science
rare housecraft, housewifery
1. 1.1 Money set aside or given for running a household.
  writing barely pays my part of the housekeeping
  Example sentencesExamples
  What about the stress it causes to his partner and family when he has gambled away the housekeeping money!
  These publications made the mother of three float through her daily chores, burn the dinner, overcook the peas, but more important, enabled her to supplement the housekeeping.
  He pays all the bills except the housekeeping, as he has a good salary.
  Plastic bars will come down to split the house in two, with those in the rich part given £400 housekeeping money and access to better living conditions.
  The policy covers 80 per cent of costs such as childcare, housekeeping, cooking, ironing and transport after the first 30 days.
  Twelve-year-old Robert's mum went off on holiday leaving the housekeeping with him and his younger siblings.
  My Thai wife has started being very secretive about the housekeeping money.
  By referring to an allowance to cover the expenses of the home, it appears to cover only money handed over to a wife for weekly housekeeping.
  Rather insultingly he left housekeeping money for me and my sister - with the strict instruction that I wasn't allowed anywhere near it.
  This horse will start at prohibitive odds for the race and though he should win without too much fuss he is not one to risk the housekeeping on.
  The father in the family as a rule made most of the decisions about expenditure, although a lot of women were given a housekeeping allowance and allowed to decide how that would be budgeted.
  Lot of people would say to me oh, I'm saving up my little extra housekeeping money just to come and spend here because there is no sales tax.
  He handed over the housekeeping every Friday night and kept some back to run his struggling, one-man business.
  What the examiners have done here is to take three issues of property rights, i.e. common funds, gifts, housekeeping allowances, and weave a separate story around each.
  Conversely joint-pool couples are most likely to agree that responsibility for breadwinning and housework should be shared and those adopting a housekeeping allowance system are least likely to agree.
  The woman had made no direct payments towards the cost of acquisition, but had paid for furnishings, bought a car and contributed to housekeeping expenses.
  She wants around 10,000 baht every month and honestly I am having trouble saving this amount out of the housekeeping money each month.
  Relations between the two are frosty, because George makes a bit too free with the housekeeping money, but they always end up in bed together.
2Operations such as maintenance or record-keeping which facilitate productive work in an organization.
Example sentencesExamples
- The key maintenance areas to making sure any elevator operates best are housekeeping, repair, lubrication and adjustment, Bell says.
- But LEAs should play the same role of assuring good housekeeping by heads as they did helping schools to improve, the Commission concluded.
- Besides improving its own agricultural housekeeping, Punjab must immediately demand from the Centre the following.
- For example, an organization might out-task facility preventive maintenance, housekeeping or engineering.
- In addition, the process makes the job easier and allows better housekeeping and maintenance.
- Before we go any further, some administrative housekeeping demands immediate attention.
- Risks may stem from design, manufacture, maintenance, storage, housekeeping, or a lack of user competence.
- We are still in the early stages and there is not a real panic - we just need good housekeeping.
- Meat outlets should be directed to cut down their waste generation by adopting good housekeeping practices.
- Operations means everything from accounting to sales to front desk to housekeeping, and Priti Patel has done it all.
- Allen, one of television's most powerful men - and rewarded as such, with a package approaching £1.9 million - has had little time lately for office housekeeping.
- Control channels are responsible for housekeeping tasks such as telling the mobile when a call is coming in and which frequency to use.
- Lately we've been doing a lot of housekeeping at our publishing offices.
- Zoning's legal defense relied upon the same faith in middle-class domesticity that supported municipal housekeeping.
- Again, start with some simple automation of the most regular housekeeping tasks, and then build in more automation as the processes mature.
- Good housekeeping and managing the risk will secure a better deal.
- In 1988, after twenty years with the journal, Alice performed that final ritual of office housekeeping.
- Hydraulic systems will make or break a modern logging operation, and as the experts tell us, much of it depends on your maintenance regime and housekeeping.
- There is an obvious lack of good housekeeping in that the building has been left to fall into such a state of disrepair.
- All entries were judged on the basis of customer service, merchandising, housekeeping, health & safety and management systems.
1. 2.1Biology The regulation of metabolic functions that are common to all cells.
  as modifier housekeeping genes
  Example sentencesExamples
  Genes of interest were printed in duplicate along with non-specific genes (plasmid c-DNA) and housekeeping genes were used for normalization purposes.
  Many cancers result from the acquisition of mutations in a family of genes called oncogenes, which normally serve important housekeeping functions for our cells.
  One simple criterion for a developmental mutation is embryonic lethality, but this also catches mutations in genes involved in housekeeping functions.
  So far in this review we have described epigenetic housekeeping functions and their involvement in genome stability.
  Because it is misshapen, the protein is destroyed by the cell's housekeeping machinery and never gets to its intended location in the cell membrane.

Definition of housekeeping in US English:

housekeeping

nounˈhousˌkēpiNGˈhaʊsˌkipɪŋ

1The management of household affairs.
Example sentencesExamples
- They stopped being taught things like ironing, housekeeping, serving.
- Thus skills were taught with regard to childcare, cooking, housekeeping, handicrafts, raising chickens, cattle and pigs, growing vegetables and fruits.
- For her, hospital management was simply good housekeeping.
- Helene employed household help, but Cullman's German housewives prided themselves on their industriousness and housekeeping without servants.
- While staying at Maitri, the Indian station, she was obliged to perform all duties, including cooking, clearing snow, burning garbage and housekeeping.
- He is in control of the money coming into the household and the amount that is available for housekeeping, she has to manage the daily expenditure.
- Moreover, the content of the magazines still deals with typical women's issues, such as beauty, cooking and housekeeping.
- ‘For the last two years I have not had to bother about cooking and housekeeping, the main worries of a housewife,’ says Mrs. Kamath.
- As well as having to cater for more than 100 people each day, she had to organise cleaning and housekeeping for residents, manage a licensed bar, look after hospitality services and produce menus in Braille.
- And if you have a housekeeper, you know once your housekeeper comes, you're probably not inclined to do heavy cleaning, maybe light housekeeping.
- I think housekeeping is closely linked to homemaking.
- She was in her 90th year but insisted on doing her own baking and housekeeping.
- Margrith has trained young, aspiring hospital and old age home managers to be, in housekeeping, specializing in cooking.
- I've met many more British women who really understand the details of housekeeping.
- While the definition of women's work has expanded, that of men's work has not, and women who work full-time outside the home are still expected to do all the cooking and housekeeping.
- Although this column, like its predecessors, devoted some space to fashion tips and general good housekeeping, it did begin to bring discussions of women's role in Ireland out of the purely domestic sphere.
- And, the Marina turned a great leveller as hotel employees cutting across echelons - from general manager to housekeeping staffer - joined hands to give the beach a face-lift.
- Still, if it wasn't for the team, we would only be pestering our partners or getting on with the decorating and housekeeping!
- The facility will provide 24-hour staffing, assistance with medication, housekeeping, laundry, meal service and exercise and activity programs.
- I am able to stay at home while both my parents work; I help them with housekeeping and some cooking.
Synonyms
household management, domestic work, domestic duties, homemaking, the running of the home
1. 1.1 Money set aside or given for the management of household affairs.
  writing barely pays my part of the housekeeping
  Example sentencesExamples
  By referring to an allowance to cover the expenses of the home, it appears to cover only money handed over to a wife for weekly housekeeping.
  The woman had made no direct payments towards the cost of acquisition, but had paid for furnishings, bought a car and contributed to housekeeping expenses.
  What about the stress it causes to his partner and family when he has gambled away the housekeeping money!
  Plastic bars will come down to split the house in two, with those in the rich part given £400 housekeeping money and access to better living conditions.
  These publications made the mother of three float through her daily chores, burn the dinner, overcook the peas, but more important, enabled her to supplement the housekeeping.
  This horse will start at prohibitive odds for the race and though he should win without too much fuss he is not one to risk the housekeeping on.
  He pays all the bills except the housekeeping, as he has a good salary.
  She wants around 10,000 baht every month and honestly I am having trouble saving this amount out of the housekeeping money each month.
  Twelve-year-old Robert's mum went off on holiday leaving the housekeeping with him and his younger siblings.
  The policy covers 80 per cent of costs such as childcare, housekeeping, cooking, ironing and transport after the first 30 days.
  Lot of people would say to me oh, I'm saving up my little extra housekeeping money just to come and spend here because there is no sales tax.
  What the examiners have done here is to take three issues of property rights, i.e. common funds, gifts, housekeeping allowances, and weave a separate story around each.
  My Thai wife has started being very secretive about the housekeeping money.
  The father in the family as a rule made most of the decisions about expenditure, although a lot of women were given a housekeeping allowance and allowed to decide how that would be budgeted.
  Conversely joint-pool couples are most likely to agree that responsibility for breadwinning and housework should be shared and those adopting a housekeeping allowance system are least likely to agree.
  He handed over the housekeeping every Friday night and kept some back to run his struggling, one-man business.
  Rather insultingly he left housekeeping money for me and my sister - with the strict instruction that I wasn't allowed anywhere near it.
  Relations between the two are frosty, because George makes a bit too free with the housekeeping money, but they always end up in bed together.
2. 1.2US A department within a hotel or other residential facility that oversees the cleaning of rooms and the provision of necessities such as towels and glassware.
  you'll never have to nag housekeeping for a set of dry towels
  Example sentencesExamples
  On January 6, after regular room cleaning, housekeeping staff noticed that that there appeared to be an argument in process but paid no attention and continued with their duties.
  The strike is affecting all basic services to the hotels including housekeeping, laundry, catering and reception.
  A young woman cares for her younger sisters by holding down a housekeeping job at the hotel.
  Hospital manager, Ann Slattery, said nursing, housekeeping and paramedics have been struck, along with patients at the unit.
  Above all else, travelers overwhelmingly agree that hotel housekeeping needs to clean up its act.
  The students work part time in light maintenance, housekeeping, retail, dishwashing and stockrooms.
  Mohammed was working in the housekeeping department of the hotel.
  The same for other products and services mentioned that I may not need or want, such as food on the airline or extra housekeeping at a hotel.
  ‘This affects all non-nursing staff: cooks, catering staff, housekeeping, clerical and maintenance,’ she said.
  He phones the hotel and housekeeping assures him that his dentures will be packed and sent to him.
  One of the dead workers had worked in housekeeping at the hotel for 15 years.
  The former head of housekeeping at the ranch claimed the woman had become ‘uppity’ when she was promoted to become the owner's personal maid.
  Springtime trails are messy, so the housekeeping staff graciously clean your mud-caked hiking boots each afternoon.
  They handled the housekeeping, cooking, laundry, chauffeuring, financial matters and even bathed Alberta.
  The kitchen, housekeeping, cleaning and care attendants were further infuriated to find their jobs advertised in the local media just before the weekend.
  Hotel housekeeping may not sound glamorous or romantic but a Hollywood film could transform the image of this ordinary job.
  A 10-week part-time hotel housekeeping training course will take place in the Erris area this autumn.
  Paraguayan American women also accepted jobs in hotel housekeeping, for example, an employment opportunity that other Americans felt was less attractive.
  In any case, during the two days we occupied this room, housekeeping apparently never noticed the problem, either.
  In a letter to the hospital's housekeeping manager, he complains of blood spots on unmopped floors, litter under the bed, dusty windowsills and mould around ceiling extractor fans.
2Operations such as record-keeping or maintenance in an organization or a computer that make work possible but do not directly constitute its performance.
Example sentencesExamples
- Hydraulic systems will make or break a modern logging operation, and as the experts tell us, much of it depends on your maintenance regime and housekeeping.
- But LEAs should play the same role of assuring good housekeeping by heads as they did helping schools to improve, the Commission concluded.
- Again, start with some simple automation of the most regular housekeeping tasks, and then build in more automation as the processes mature.
- In addition, the process makes the job easier and allows better housekeeping and maintenance.
- Lately we've been doing a lot of housekeeping at our publishing offices.
- Control channels are responsible for housekeeping tasks such as telling the mobile when a call is coming in and which frequency to use.
- All entries were judged on the basis of customer service, merchandising, housekeeping, health & safety and management systems.
- Good housekeeping and managing the risk will secure a better deal.
- Meat outlets should be directed to cut down their waste generation by adopting good housekeeping practices.
- Besides improving its own agricultural housekeeping, Punjab must immediately demand from the Centre the following.
- Allen, one of television's most powerful men - and rewarded as such, with a package approaching £1.9 million - has had little time lately for office housekeeping.
- Zoning's legal defense relied upon the same faith in middle-class domesticity that supported municipal housekeeping.
- For example, an organization might out-task facility preventive maintenance, housekeeping or engineering.
- In 1988, after twenty years with the journal, Alice performed that final ritual of office housekeeping.
- Risks may stem from design, manufacture, maintenance, storage, housekeeping, or a lack of user competence.
- Before we go any further, some administrative housekeeping demands immediate attention.
- We are still in the early stages and there is not a real panic - we just need good housekeeping.
- There is an obvious lack of good housekeeping in that the building has been left to fall into such a state of disrepair.
- The key maintenance areas to making sure any elevator operates best are housekeeping, repair, lubrication and adjustment, Bell says.
- Operations means everything from accounting to sales to front desk to housekeeping, and Priti Patel has done it all.
1. 2.1Biology The regulation of metabolic functions that are common to all cells.
  as modifier housekeeping genes
  Example sentencesExamples
  One simple criterion for a developmental mutation is embryonic lethality, but this also catches mutations in genes involved in housekeeping functions.
  Many cancers result from the acquisition of mutations in a family of genes called oncogenes, which normally serve important housekeeping functions for our cells.
  Genes of interest were printed in duplicate along with non-specific genes (plasmid c-DNA) and housekeeping genes were used for normalization purposes.
  So far in this review we have described epigenetic housekeeping functions and their involvement in genome stability.
  Because it is misshapen, the protein is destroyed by the cell's housekeeping machinery and never gets to its intended location in the cell membrane.

单词	housekeeping
释义	Definition of housekeeping in English: housekeeping noun ˈhaʊskiːpɪŋˈhaʊsˌkipɪŋ mass noun 1The management of household affairs. she did as much of the cooking and housekeeping as she could Example sentencesExamples Thus skills were taught with regard to childcare, cooking, housekeeping, handicrafts, raising chickens, cattle and pigs, growing vegetables and fruits. I am able to stay at home while both my parents work; I help them with housekeeping and some cooking. And, the Marina turned a great leveller as hotel employees cutting across echelons - from general manager to housekeeping staffer - joined hands to give the beach a face-lift. Margrith has trained young, aspiring hospital and old age home managers to be, in housekeeping, specializing in cooking. As well as having to cater for more than 100 people each day, she had to organise cleaning and housekeeping for residents, manage a licensed bar, look after hospitality services and produce menus in Braille. I've met many more British women who really understand the details of housekeeping. He is in control of the money coming into the household and the amount that is available for housekeeping, she has to manage the daily expenditure. Moreover, the content of the magazines still deals with typical women's issues, such as beauty, cooking and housekeeping. The facility will provide 24-hour staffing, assistance with medication, housekeeping, laundry, meal service and exercise and activity programs. Although this column, like its predecessors, devoted some space to fashion tips and general good housekeeping, it did begin to bring discussions of women's role in Ireland out of the purely domestic sphere. She was in her 90th year but insisted on doing her own baking and housekeeping. ‘For the last two years I have not had to bother about cooking and housekeeping, the main worries of a housewife,’ says Mrs. Kamath. Still, if it wasn't for the team, we would only be pestering our partners or getting on with the decorating and housekeeping! While staying at Maitri, the Indian station, she was obliged to perform all duties, including cooking, clearing snow, burning garbage and housekeeping. And if you have a housekeeper, you know once your housekeeper comes, you're probably not inclined to do heavy cleaning, maybe light housekeeping. Helene employed household help, but Cullman's German housewives prided themselves on their industriousness and housekeeping without servants. They stopped being taught things like ironing, housekeeping, serving. For her, hospital management was simply good housekeeping. While the definition of women's work has expanded, that of men's work has not, and women who work full-time outside the home are still expected to do all the cooking and housekeeping. I think housekeeping is closely linked to homemaking. Synonyms household management, domestic work, domestic duties, homemaking, the running of the home home economics, domestic science rare housecraft, housewifery 1.1 Money set aside or given for running a household. writing barely pays my part of the housekeeping Example sentencesExamples What about the stress it causes to his partner and family when he has gambled away the housekeeping money! These publications made the mother of three float through her daily chores, burn the dinner, overcook the peas, but more important, enabled her to supplement the housekeeping. He pays all the bills except the housekeeping, as he has a good salary. Plastic bars will come down to split the house in two, with those in the rich part given £400 housekeeping money and access to better living conditions. The policy covers 80 per cent of costs such as childcare, housekeeping, cooking, ironing and transport after the first 30 days. Twelve-year-old Robert's mum went off on holiday leaving the housekeeping with him and his younger siblings. My Thai wife has started being very secretive about the housekeeping money. By referring to an allowance to cover the expenses of the home, it appears to cover only money handed over to a wife for weekly housekeeping. Rather insultingly he left housekeeping money for me and my sister - with the strict instruction that I wasn't allowed anywhere near it. This horse will start at prohibitive odds for the race and though he should win without too much fuss he is not one to risk the housekeeping on. The father in the family as a rule made most of the decisions about expenditure, although a lot of women were given a housekeeping allowance and allowed to decide how that would be budgeted. Lot of people would say to me oh, I'm saving up my little extra housekeeping money just to come and spend here because there is no sales tax. He handed over the housekeeping every Friday night and kept some back to run his struggling, one-man business. What the examiners have done here is to take three issues of property rights, i.e. common funds, gifts, housekeeping allowances, and weave a separate story around each. Conversely joint-pool couples are most likely to agree that responsibility for breadwinning and housework should be shared and those adopting a housekeeping allowance system are least likely to agree. The woman had made no direct payments towards the cost of acquisition, but had paid for furnishings, bought a car and contributed to housekeeping expenses. She wants around 10,000 baht every month and honestly I am having trouble saving this amount out of the housekeeping money each month. Relations between the two are frosty, because George makes a bit too free with the housekeeping money, but they always end up in bed together. 2Operations such as maintenance or record-keeping which facilitate productive work in an organization. Example sentencesExamples The key maintenance areas to making sure any elevator operates best are housekeeping, repair, lubrication and adjustment, Bell says. But LEAs should play the same role of assuring good housekeeping by heads as they did helping schools to improve, the Commission concluded. Besides improving its own agricultural housekeeping, Punjab must immediately demand from the Centre the following. For example, an organization might out-task facility preventive maintenance, housekeeping or engineering. In addition, the process makes the job easier and allows better housekeeping and maintenance. Before we go any further, some administrative housekeeping demands immediate attention. Risks may stem from design, manufacture, maintenance, storage, housekeeping, or a lack of user competence. We are still in the early stages and there is not a real panic - we just need good housekeeping. Meat outlets should be directed to cut down their waste generation by adopting good housekeeping practices. Operations means everything from accounting to sales to front desk to housekeeping, and Priti Patel has done it all. Allen, one of television's most powerful men - and rewarded as such, with a package approaching £1.9 million - has had little time lately for office housekeeping. Control channels are responsible for housekeeping tasks such as telling the mobile when a call is coming in and which frequency to use. Lately we've been doing a lot of housekeeping at our publishing offices. Zoning's legal defense relied upon the same faith in middle-class domesticity that supported municipal housekeeping. Again, start with some simple automation of the most regular housekeeping tasks, and then build in more automation as the processes mature. Good housekeeping and managing the risk will secure a better deal. In 1988, after twenty years with the journal, Alice performed that final ritual of office housekeeping. Hydraulic systems will make or break a modern logging operation, and as the experts tell us, much of it depends on your maintenance regime and housekeeping. There is an obvious lack of good housekeeping in that the building has been left to fall into such a state of disrepair. All entries were judged on the basis of customer service, merchandising, housekeeping, health & safety and management systems. 2.1Biology The regulation of metabolic functions that are common to all cells. as modifier housekeeping genes Example sentencesExamples Genes of interest were printed in duplicate along with non-specific genes (plasmid c-DNA) and housekeeping genes were used for normalization purposes. Many cancers result from the acquisition of mutations in a family of genes called oncogenes, which normally serve important housekeeping functions for our cells. One simple criterion for a developmental mutation is embryonic lethality, but this also catches mutations in genes involved in housekeeping functions. So far in this review we have described epigenetic housekeeping functions and their involvement in genome stability. Because it is misshapen, the protein is destroyed by the cell's housekeeping machinery and never gets to its intended location in the cell membrane. Definition of housekeeping in US English: housekeeping nounˈhousˌkēpiNGˈhaʊsˌkipɪŋ 1The management of household affairs. Example sentencesExamples They stopped being taught things like ironing, housekeeping, serving. Thus skills were taught with regard to childcare, cooking, housekeeping, handicrafts, raising chickens, cattle and pigs, growing vegetables and fruits. For her, hospital management was simply good housekeeping. Helene employed household help, but Cullman's German housewives prided themselves on their industriousness and housekeeping without servants. While staying at Maitri, the Indian station, she was obliged to perform all duties, including cooking, clearing snow, burning garbage and housekeeping. He is in control of the money coming into the household and the amount that is available for housekeeping, she has to manage the daily expenditure. Moreover, the content of the magazines still deals with typical women's issues, such as beauty, cooking and housekeeping. ‘For the last two years I have not had to bother about cooking and housekeeping, the main worries of a housewife,’ says Mrs. Kamath. As well as having to cater for more than 100 people each day, she had to organise cleaning and housekeeping for residents, manage a licensed bar, look after hospitality services and produce menus in Braille. And if you have a housekeeper, you know once your housekeeper comes, you're probably not inclined to do heavy cleaning, maybe light housekeeping. I think housekeeping is closely linked to homemaking. She was in her 90th year but insisted on doing her own baking and housekeeping. Margrith has trained young, aspiring hospital and old age home managers to be, in housekeeping, specializing in cooking. I've met many more British women who really understand the details of housekeeping. While the definition of women's work has expanded, that of men's work has not, and women who work full-time outside the home are still expected to do all the cooking and housekeeping. Although this column, like its predecessors, devoted some space to fashion tips and general good housekeeping, it did begin to bring discussions of women's role in Ireland out of the purely domestic sphere. And, the Marina turned a great leveller as hotel employees cutting across echelons - from general manager to housekeeping staffer - joined hands to give the beach a face-lift. Still, if it wasn't for the team, we would only be pestering our partners or getting on with the decorating and housekeeping! The facility will provide 24-hour staffing, assistance with medication, housekeeping, laundry, meal service and exercise and activity programs. I am able to stay at home while both my parents work; I help them with housekeeping and some cooking. Synonyms household management, domestic work, domestic duties, homemaking, the running of the home 1.1 Money set aside or given for the management of household affairs. writing barely pays my part of the housekeeping Example sentencesExamples By referring to an allowance to cover the expenses of the home, it appears to cover only money handed over to a wife for weekly housekeeping. The woman had made no direct payments towards the cost of acquisition, but had paid for furnishings, bought a car and contributed to housekeeping expenses. What about the stress it causes to his partner and family when he has gambled away the housekeeping money! Plastic bars will come down to split the house in two, with those in the rich part given £400 housekeeping money and access to better living conditions. These publications made the mother of three float through her daily chores, burn the dinner, overcook the peas, but more important, enabled her to supplement the housekeeping. This horse will start at prohibitive odds for the race and though he should win without too much fuss he is not one to risk the housekeeping on. He pays all the bills except the housekeeping, as he has a good salary. She wants around 10,000 baht every month and honestly I am having trouble saving this amount out of the housekeeping money each month. Twelve-year-old Robert's mum went off on holiday leaving the housekeeping with him and his younger siblings. The policy covers 80 per cent of costs such as childcare, housekeeping, cooking, ironing and transport after the first 30 days. Lot of people would say to me oh, I'm saving up my little extra housekeeping money just to come and spend here because there is no sales tax. What the examiners have done here is to take three issues of property rights, i.e. common funds, gifts, housekeeping allowances, and weave a separate story around each. My Thai wife has started being very secretive about the housekeeping money. The father in the family as a rule made most of the decisions about expenditure, although a lot of women were given a housekeeping allowance and allowed to decide how that would be budgeted. Conversely joint-pool couples are most likely to agree that responsibility for breadwinning and housework should be shared and those adopting a housekeeping allowance system are least likely to agree. He handed over the housekeeping every Friday night and kept some back to run his struggling, one-man business. Rather insultingly he left housekeeping money for me and my sister - with the strict instruction that I wasn't allowed anywhere near it. Relations between the two are frosty, because George makes a bit too free with the housekeeping money, but they always end up in bed together. 1.2US A department within a hotel or other residential facility that oversees the cleaning of rooms and the provision of necessities such as towels and glassware. you'll never have to nag housekeeping for a set of dry towels Example sentencesExamples On January 6, after regular room cleaning, housekeeping staff noticed that that there appeared to be an argument in process but paid no attention and continued with their duties. The strike is affecting all basic services to the hotels including housekeeping, laundry, catering and reception. A young woman cares for her younger sisters by holding down a housekeeping job at the hotel. Hospital manager, Ann Slattery, said nursing, housekeeping and paramedics have been struck, along with patients at the unit. Above all else, travelers overwhelmingly agree that hotel housekeeping needs to clean up its act. The students work part time in light maintenance, housekeeping, retail, dishwashing and stockrooms. Mohammed was working in the housekeeping department of the hotel. The same for other products and services mentioned that I may not need or want, such as food on the airline or extra housekeeping at a hotel. ‘This affects all non-nursing staff: cooks, catering staff, housekeeping, clerical and maintenance,’ she said. He phones the hotel and housekeeping assures him that his dentures will be packed and sent to him. One of the dead workers had worked in housekeeping at the hotel for 15 years. The former head of housekeeping at the ranch claimed the woman had become ‘uppity’ when she was promoted to become the owner's personal maid. Springtime trails are messy, so the housekeeping staff graciously clean your mud-caked hiking boots each afternoon. They handled the housekeeping, cooking, laundry, chauffeuring, financial matters and even bathed Alberta. The kitchen, housekeeping, cleaning and care attendants were further infuriated to find their jobs advertised in the local media just before the weekend. Hotel housekeeping may not sound glamorous or romantic but a Hollywood film could transform the image of this ordinary job. A 10-week part-time hotel housekeeping training course will take place in the Erris area this autumn. Paraguayan American women also accepted jobs in hotel housekeeping, for example, an employment opportunity that other Americans felt was less attractive. In any case, during the two days we occupied this room, housekeeping apparently never noticed the problem, either. In a letter to the hospital's housekeeping manager, he complains of blood spots on unmopped floors, litter under the bed, dusty windowsills and mould around ceiling extractor fans. 2Operations such as record-keeping or maintenance in an organization or a computer that make work possible but do not directly constitute its performance. Example sentencesExamples Hydraulic systems will make or break a modern logging operation, and as the experts tell us, much of it depends on your maintenance regime and housekeeping. But LEAs should play the same role of assuring good housekeeping by heads as they did helping schools to improve, the Commission concluded. Again, start with some simple automation of the most regular housekeeping tasks, and then build in more automation as the processes mature. In addition, the process makes the job easier and allows better housekeeping and maintenance. Lately we've been doing a lot of housekeeping at our publishing offices. Control channels are responsible for housekeeping tasks such as telling the mobile when a call is coming in and which frequency to use. All entries were judged on the basis of customer service, merchandising, housekeeping, health & safety and management systems. Good housekeeping and managing the risk will secure a better deal. Meat outlets should be directed to cut down their waste generation by adopting good housekeeping practices. Besides improving its own agricultural housekeeping, Punjab must immediately demand from the Centre the following. Allen, one of television's most powerful men - and rewarded as such, with a package approaching £1.9 million - has had little time lately for office housekeeping. Zoning's legal defense relied upon the same faith in middle-class domesticity that supported municipal housekeeping. For example, an organization might out-task facility preventive maintenance, housekeeping or engineering. In 1988, after twenty years with the journal, Alice performed that final ritual of office housekeeping. Risks may stem from design, manufacture, maintenance, storage, housekeeping, or a lack of user competence. Before we go any further, some administrative housekeeping demands immediate attention. We are still in the early stages and there is not a real panic - we just need good housekeeping. There is an obvious lack of good housekeeping in that the building has been left to fall into such a state of disrepair. The key maintenance areas to making sure any elevator operates best are housekeeping, repair, lubrication and adjustment, Bell says. Operations means everything from accounting to sales to front desk to housekeeping, and Priti Patel has done it all. 2.1Biology The regulation of metabolic functions that are common to all cells. as modifier housekeeping genes Example sentencesExamples One simple criterion for a developmental mutation is embryonic lethality, but this also catches mutations in genes involved in housekeeping functions. Many cancers result from the acquisition of mutations in a family of genes called oncogenes, which normally serve important housekeeping functions for our cells. Genes of interest were printed in duplicate along with non-specific genes (plasmid c-DNA) and housekeeping genes were used for normalization purposes. So far in this review we have described epigenetic housekeeping functions and their involvement in genome stability. Because it is misshapen, the protein is destroyed by the cell's housekeeping machinery and never gets to its intended location in the cell membrane.
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