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Definition of housecleaning in English: housecleaningnounˈhaʊskliːnɪŋˈhaʊsˌklinɪŋ mass nounNorth American 1The action or process of cleaning the inside of house or flat. I take care of the housecleaning, cooking, and laundry Example sentencesExamples - He still owes me a housecleaning and babysitting from months back and anyone who welches on a promise isn't deserving of accolades.
- One thing's for certain about modern-day housecleaning - everybody's got a different definition of clean.
- Traditionally, the Norwegians perform a thorough housecleaning before Christmas, which actually extends until January 2, the end of the holiday season.
- In the late nineteenth century, women were primarily responsible for cultivation, food preparation, and housecleaning.
- Housecleaning causes the most marital dust-ups as majority of couples admit they row over chores at least once a week
- Once, a female friend from church offered to recruit teams of volunteers to provide meals, housecleaning and baby-sitting on a regular basis.
- Well, my mom was not given the gift of housecleaning.
- It was a good day for some housecleaning last weekend.
- The low-income occupants may be able to provide services for the senior occupants, such as baby-sitting, housecleaning, pet care, health care, or cooking.
- Similar information about Nicaraguan American women in the workplace is not available, though many sources say that Central American women commonly work in textiles and housecleaning.
- Much of their work is domestic labor - caregiving, house cleaning, child care - an industry that, historically, is not only low-paid but also exploitative.
- But he irritated me so today, and as it gives me an excuse to put off the housecleaning for another half hour, I'll have a go at it.
- Company executives also discovered that the machine appealed to consumers who were serious about housecleaning.
- He enjoys housecleaning and keeps cell 2 unblemished: he scrubs the toilet, sink and floor; he dusts and folds laundry.
- And all sorts of activities qualify - as long as you keep moving for at least 10 minutes - including yard work, dog walking, and housecleaning.
- As I scurried through the narrow lanes of the Old City, I was feeling frustrated and dejected at not being able to stay on top of the housecleaning.
- I own and run a domestic housecleaning business and without my girls many families wouldn't be able to live the luxurious lifestyles that they do.
- People with two homes spend, on average, five times as much as those with one home on, among other things, lawn care, home security, pest control and housecleaning.
- Inform patients that routine household duties, such as bill paying, laundry, and housecleaning, should be taken care of a few days before surgery.
- In fact, a general housecleaning is long overdue.
- Another option is to give gifts of time or service such as free babysitting, housecleaning, cooking, etc., to those on your gift list.
- I am not always on top of my housecleaning, but even on my worst days, my place has never looked so disgusting!
- Male surgeons have no difficulty maintaining much higher degrees of vigilance about contamination in an operating room than would ever be warranted in housecleaning.
- I do housecleaning just to get some of my stuff back, that's all.
- In the event, Gabriel got work with a road crew, digging up the streets of north London for cable companies; Andrea, again unable to persuade a bank to give her an interview, took up house- cleaning.
- I guess for me I've always had to trust the lord for the next job, which is usually housecleaning.
- There was no procrastination as with exercise, no excuses as with trying to stop eating sugar, no laziness as with housecleaning and other chores.
- Physically, I'm fine. My body is raring to go, ready to face the housecleaning and running around of another Saturday.
- 1.1 The process of removing unwanted or superfluous elements.
the new owner's housecleaning cost a lot of people their jobs Example sentencesExamples - There will be a thorough housecleaning in Minnesota following this season, and it's impossible to imagine Tice not being kicked to the curb.
- The mayor's dismissal of this sixty-five-year-old bureaucrat marked the end of the housecleaning at City Hall.
- Part of the new optimism is due to corporate housecleaning.
- But you get the feeling the housecleaning is just beginning.
- For Taiwan, the challenge is to continue the financial housecleaning without spooking investors - and precipitating a banking crisis.
- Last week's Supreme Court decision to strike down a Texas law was not just housecleaning.
- It would seem to be a housecleaning, almost even a witch hunt, going on at the CIA.
- The company described the news as a "corporate housecleaning exercise".
- Corporate America, of course, has already done a lot of housecleaning since the late '90s.
- It would be great to do a thorough housecleaning of all such regimes.
- The house cleaning under the new chief executive could see up to 2,000 jobs go.
- All told, the housecleaning represents one of the biggest management upheavals ever.
- The government was reluctant to push through the sort of housecleaning that the United States went through in its recent crisis.
- But last year, Kenyans elected a new leadership, and a major housecleaning began.
- Most new bosses do a little housecleaning.
- So when I got here, it wasn't so much a matter of housecleaning as it was taking what was there, organizing it right, filling some empty chairs.
- When he became artistic director of the Stuttgart Ballet, the company was not in particularly good shape and his first task was housecleaning.
- Never mind the Congressional gimmick of reorganizing the INS, surely we are long past due for a housecleaning of our immigration bureaucracy, starting at the top.
- The success enjoyed during the current season can be traced to the general housecleaning initiated before, during, and after the debacle of 1999.
- I sometimes wonder if the housecleaning the Church is undergoing now is precisely to prepare it for this struggle.
- I lost half of it, alas - I was doing some desktop housecleaning, dragged it to the trash and deleted it without thinking.
- The combination could bring about a top-to-bottom housecleaning of the industry.
- Booker became the national poster boy for a general black political housecleaning, one that would sweep away aging officeholders and ‘outdated’ ideas.
- I've always tried to view the ninth month as a fresh start, a time for a few resolutions, a time for some housecleaning, both mental and physical.
- While 16 officers have been terminated since the decree kicked in, there has been no wholesale housecleaning.
- North America's most infamous precinct had just undergone a housecleaning aimed at rooting out corruption.
- We need a massive housecleaning in Washington.
- It's a question worth pondering given April's executive high jinks, corporate housecleaning and financial restatements.
Derivatives verbˈhaʊskliːnˈhaʊsˌklin North American Mom cooked, made our clothes, housecleaned, and taught us to behave. Example sentencesExamples - The average parent works all day, then comes home to prepare dinner for children, houseclean, pay the bills, etc.
- Our staff maintains and housecleans the buildings and there is never any mowing or repairs to worry about.
- Individuals should houseclean their stock portfolio by December 23 to trigger sufficient capital losses to offset against any capital gains realized in the year.
- He and his wife had people who housecleaned and cooked for them.
noun North American Well, she hired a bunch of housecleaners and watched while drinking margaritas. Example sentencesExamples - Another group of immigrant women from Mexico, who work as housecleaners in the Bay Area, got tired of dealing with health problems caused by chemical cleaning solutions.
- Ehrenreich repeated the experiment in Portland, Maine, where she worked seven days a week as a housecleaner and nursing-home assistant, but still had to resort to a food bank.
- The buses serve the garment workers and the housecleaners, as well as the clerical staff that keep the law offices and accounting firms operating.
- I am looking for a housecleaner who is reliable and trustworthy.
Definition of housecleaning in US English: housecleaningnounˈhousˌklēniNGˈhaʊsˌklinɪŋ North American 1The action or process of cleaning the inside of a house or apartment. I take care of the housecleaning, cooking, and laundry Example sentencesExamples - Inform patients that routine household duties, such as bill paying, laundry, and housecleaning, should be taken care of a few days before surgery.
- It was a good day for some housecleaning last weekend.
- He enjoys housecleaning and keeps cell 2 unblemished: he scrubs the toilet, sink and floor; he dusts and folds laundry.
- Well, my mom was not given the gift of housecleaning.
- Much of their work is domestic labor - caregiving, house cleaning, child care - an industry that, historically, is not only low-paid but also exploitative.
- Once, a female friend from church offered to recruit teams of volunteers to provide meals, housecleaning and baby-sitting on a regular basis.
- Physically, I'm fine. My body is raring to go, ready to face the housecleaning and running around of another Saturday.
- The low-income occupants may be able to provide services for the senior occupants, such as baby-sitting, housecleaning, pet care, health care, or cooking.
- Housecleaning causes the most marital dust-ups as majority of couples admit they row over chores at least once a week
- In the late nineteenth century, women were primarily responsible for cultivation, food preparation, and housecleaning.
- As I scurried through the narrow lanes of the Old City, I was feeling frustrated and dejected at not being able to stay on top of the housecleaning.
- And all sorts of activities qualify - as long as you keep moving for at least 10 minutes - including yard work, dog walking, and housecleaning.
- In fact, a general housecleaning is long overdue.
- There was no procrastination as with exercise, no excuses as with trying to stop eating sugar, no laziness as with housecleaning and other chores.
- I own and run a domestic housecleaning business and without my girls many families wouldn't be able to live the luxurious lifestyles that they do.
- One thing's for certain about modern-day housecleaning - everybody's got a different definition of clean.
- He still owes me a housecleaning and babysitting from months back and anyone who welches on a promise isn't deserving of accolades.
- Another option is to give gifts of time or service such as free babysitting, housecleaning, cooking, etc., to those on your gift list.
- In the event, Gabriel got work with a road crew, digging up the streets of north London for cable companies; Andrea, again unable to persuade a bank to give her an interview, took up house- cleaning.
- Similar information about Nicaraguan American women in the workplace is not available, though many sources say that Central American women commonly work in textiles and housecleaning.
- Company executives also discovered that the machine appealed to consumers who were serious about housecleaning.
- I guess for me I've always had to trust the lord for the next job, which is usually housecleaning.
- People with two homes spend, on average, five times as much as those with one home on, among other things, lawn care, home security, pest control and housecleaning.
- Traditionally, the Norwegians perform a thorough housecleaning before Christmas, which actually extends until January 2, the end of the holiday season.
- Male surgeons have no difficulty maintaining much higher degrees of vigilance about contamination in an operating room than would ever be warranted in housecleaning.
- But he irritated me so today, and as it gives me an excuse to put off the housecleaning for another half hour, I'll have a go at it.
- I do housecleaning just to get some of my stuff back, that's all.
- I am not always on top of my housecleaning, but even on my worst days, my place has never looked so disgusting!
- 1.1 The removal of unwanted or superfluous elements.
the new owner's housecleaning cost a lot of people their jobs Example sentencesExamples - While 16 officers have been terminated since the decree kicked in, there has been no wholesale housecleaning.
- The combination could bring about a top-to-bottom housecleaning of the industry.
- But last year, Kenyans elected a new leadership, and a major housecleaning began.
- I've always tried to view the ninth month as a fresh start, a time for a few resolutions, a time for some housecleaning, both mental and physical.
- It would be great to do a thorough housecleaning of all such regimes.
- Part of the new optimism is due to corporate housecleaning.
- The success enjoyed during the current season can be traced to the general housecleaning initiated before, during, and after the debacle of 1999.
- There will be a thorough housecleaning in Minnesota following this season, and it's impossible to imagine Tice not being kicked to the curb.
- The government was reluctant to push through the sort of housecleaning that the United States went through in its recent crisis.
- I sometimes wonder if the housecleaning the Church is undergoing now is precisely to prepare it for this struggle.
- North America's most infamous precinct had just undergone a housecleaning aimed at rooting out corruption.
- For Taiwan, the challenge is to continue the financial housecleaning without spooking investors - and precipitating a banking crisis.
- So when I got here, it wasn't so much a matter of housecleaning as it was taking what was there, organizing it right, filling some empty chairs.
- We need a massive housecleaning in Washington.
- I lost half of it, alas - I was doing some desktop housecleaning, dragged it to the trash and deleted it without thinking.
- It's a question worth pondering given April's executive high jinks, corporate housecleaning and financial restatements.
- Never mind the Congressional gimmick of reorganizing the INS, surely we are long past due for a housecleaning of our immigration bureaucracy, starting at the top.
- But you get the feeling the housecleaning is just beginning.
- Corporate America, of course, has already done a lot of housecleaning since the late '90s.
- The company described the news as a "corporate housecleaning exercise".
- It would seem to be a housecleaning, almost even a witch hunt, going on at the CIA.
- Booker became the national poster boy for a general black political housecleaning, one that would sweep away aging officeholders and ‘outdated’ ideas.
- All told, the housecleaning represents one of the biggest management upheavals ever.
- The mayor's dismissal of this sixty-five-year-old bureaucrat marked the end of the housecleaning at City Hall.
- When he became artistic director of the Stuttgart Ballet, the company was not in particularly good shape and his first task was housecleaning.
- The house cleaning under the new chief executive could see up to 2,000 jobs go.
- Most new bosses do a little housecleaning.
- Last week's Supreme Court decision to strike down a Texas law was not just housecleaning.
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