housekeep

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Twelve years before she had come here to "housekeep," as the old phrase went.

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  1. To keep house; live as a family in a house. [Colloq., U. S.]

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  • We rang the doorbell, and instead of pressing the talk button on the intercom, the housekeep accidentally opened the gates! —  Murmurs.com
  • The first, in 1930, was executive housekeep Juliette Brown, who apparently awoke at 4 a.m. feeling ill and died while reaching for the phone.
  • Twelve years before she had come here to "housekeep," as the old phrase went. —  A Little Girl in Old Boston
  • "If she didn't want to housekeep, why does she go out as a housekeeper?" —  Captain Jim
  • There can't be waste going on in the house--I won't have it, not when I housekeep, at any rate. —  Polly A New-Fashioned Girl
 

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  1. from house-keep-er, house-keep-ing; cf. householder, household.
 

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