Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To keep house; live as a family in a house.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb to take care of all household-related business.

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  • verb intransitive To carry out the domestic duties of housekeeping.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb maintain a household; take care of all business related to a household

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Examples

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

    A Little Girl in Old Boston Amanda Minnie Douglas 1873

  • Today, the most common type of marriage is the Companionate Marriage, in which husband and wife each have a career, and they co-parent and co-housekeep according to gender-free norms they negotiate.

    Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off 2009

  • Today, the most common type of marriage is the Companionate Marriage, in which husband and wife each have a career, and they co-parent and co-housekeep according to gender-free norms they negotiate.

    Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off 2009

  • And there's a tight little cottage of three rooms the two of you can housekeep in.

    CHAPTER V 2010

  • He certainly knows the latinos who housekeep and wash his poopie undies on his Texas big boy ranch.

    Think Progress » Rewriting history. 2006

  • It is not that men cannot knit, it is a question of time - work down the coal mine and play football at weekends - or housekeep, cook and rear children.

    Knitting is a Guy Thing Julianne 2007

  • As our system already uses a script to housekeep the system upon 90% utilisation, there is 10% about 500MB allowance for the system to continue running.

    Heap dump and harddisk space shortage « Digital Kaleidascope 2007

  • I needed a woman in the house to -- to housekeep and to look after my kids. '

    Carry A. Nation: Retelling the Life 2001

  • "Gods, one would think no one in this band has the wit to housekeep but me,"

    Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

  • The housekeep - ing keys are the smaller ones, room keys the larger.

    Nerilka's Story McCaffrey, Anne 1986

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