Translate housekeeping | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish Definition of housekeeping
noun
[mass noun] 1the management of household affairs: she did as much of the cooking and housekeeping as she could money set aside or given for running a household:writing barely pays my part of the housekeeping
2operations such as maintenance or record-keeping which facilitate productive work in an organization. Biology the regulation of metabolic functions that are common to all cells: [as modifier]:housekeeping genes
