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housekeeping

Syllabification: (house·keep·ing)
Pronunciation: /ˈhousˌkēpiNG/
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Definition of housekeeping

noun

  • 1the management of household affairs.
  • money set aside or given for the management of household affairs:writing barely pays my part of the housekeeping
  • 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
  • 2operations such as record-keeping or maintenance in an organization or a computer that make work possible but do not directly constitute its performance.
  • Biology the regulation of metabolic functions that are common to all cells: [as modifier]:housekeeping genes

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