| 单词 | houseperson |
| 释义 | houseperson in British English (ˈhaʊsˌpɜːsən) noun 1. a person who manages a household, a housewife or househusband Old textbooks will tell you that the average houseperson or sedentary worker willburn up 2,500 calories. 2. a person who is employed to carry out housekeeping duties, for example in a hotel houseperson in American English (ˈhausˌpɜːrsən) noun someone who manages a household; househusband or housewife Word origin [1970–75; house(wife) + -person]This word is first recorded in the period 1970–75. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Heimlich maneuver, consciousness-raising, cornrow, salsa, urban legend-person is a combining form of person, replacing in existing compound words such paired, gender-specific forms as -man and -woman or -er and -ess. Other words that use the affix -person include: chairperson, salesperson, waitperson |
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