housekeeper
housekeeper
Definition
house·keeper (-kēp′ər)
noun
a person who manages a household; esp., a woman hired to do this
housekeeper
Synonyms
housekeeper
Usage Examples
Possessives
- room: The housekeeper's room was rather nearer to the front of the house than the pantry in which Ames had been working.
Converse of object
- employ: Similarly, a man or woman may employ a housekeeper or servant of the other sex.
- become: Synopsis On the run from the wicked queen, Snow White becomes housekeeper to a bunch of diminutive miners.
- have: In a number of areas posts such has Housekeepers have been in place for many years.
- hire: With the money they sent we were able to hire a housekeeper for the next three months and it saved my life!
- come: Miss Pratt seems to have been a good choice of nanny come housekeeper.
- name: In which 1970s US sitcom did Ann B Davis play a housekeeper named Alice?
Adjective modifier
- former: He was mainly raised by a former slave housekeeper of whom he was very fond.
- poor: The Charity allowed for weekly payments to poor housekeepers.
- old: And you saw the old housekeeper, I suppose?
- good: I could hardly believe that I had successfully accomplished my goal of being a good housekeeper ( at least for a day!
- new: Matt tries to think of a nice way to fire the new housekeeper.
- faithful: The servants placed meat for him, and the faithful housekeeper brought him bread to eat.
Modifies a noun
- Mrs: Father Ted's faithful housekeeper Mrs Doyle is to front a new advertising campaign for the Inland Revenue.
- role: Nearly all the sites inspected indicated that they have a housekeeper role in their cleaning services.
Noun used with modifier
- live-in: He tells her he's got a new live-in housekeeper to help look after the kids.
- ward: In the reports one patient comments: " My ward housekeeper was very efficient.
- head: The Plan requires that head housekeepers are in place by 2004.
- resident: There was a resident manager and, possibly, also a resident housekeeper.
- nanny: A nanny housekeeper can by employed live out ( daily ), live in, on temporary or permanent basis.
housekeeper Quotes
If a man marries his housekeeper or his cook, the national dividend is diminished.
Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.
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