Translate housekeeping | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish 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
