housekeeping
/ˈhaʊskiːpɪŋ
/noun [mass noun]
1The management of household affairs: she did as much of the cooking and housekeeping as she could...
- ‘For the last two years I have not had to bother about cooking and housekeeping, the main worries of a housewife,’ says Mrs. Kamath.
- And, the Marina turned a great leveller as hotel employees cutting across echelons - from general manager to housekeeping staffer - joined hands to give the beach a face-lift.
- For her, hospital management was simply good housekeeping.
Synonyms
household management, domestic work, domestic duties, homemaking, the running of the home;
home economics, domestic science
rare housecraft, housewifery
1.1Money set aside or given for running a household: writing barely pays my part of the housekeeping...
- Lot of people would say to me oh, I'm saving up my little extra housekeeping money just to come and spend here because there is no sales tax.
- Rather insultingly he left housekeeping money for me and my sister - with the strict instruction that I wasn't allowed anywhere near it.
- Plastic bars will come down to split the house in two, with those in the rich part given £400 housekeeping money and access to better living conditions.
2Operations such as maintenance or record-keeping which facilitate productive work in an organization.Risks may stem from design, manufacture, maintenance, storage, housekeeping, or a lack of user competence....
- Hydraulic systems will make or break a modern logging operation, and as the experts tell us, much of it depends on your maintenance regime and housekeeping.
- Control channels are responsible for housekeeping tasks such as telling the mobile when a call is coming in and which frequency to use.
2.1 Biology The regulation of metabolic functions that are common to all cells: [as modifier]: housekeeping genes...
- Many cancers result from the acquisition of mutations in a family of genes called oncogenes, which normally serve important housekeeping functions for our cells.
- One simple criterion for a developmental mutation is embryonic lethality, but this also catches mutations in genes involved in housekeeping functions.
- So far in this review we have described epigenetic housekeeping functions and their involvement in genome stability.