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  • noun Plural form of housekeeper.

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Examples

  • "Black spaghetti," is the term housekeepers for Hospitality Management Inc., which owns and operates five hotels in Sacramento, Calif., use to describe the tangled strands of wires in their collections.

    Good Thing Hotels Don't Charge for Left-Behind Chargers 2010

  • Others address the basic essentials, with "housekeepers" - already employed by one hospital - suggested to look after standards of food and cleanliness.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • Page: 278 The Woman's Advocate. feel that the present excitement among women, and to them "onpleasantness," is unaccountable -- who can't possibly comprehend why the women will not be "content within their sphere" -- why they can't all be "housekeepers" -- might be enlightened if they would but study the subject a little from Mr. Tulliver's stand-point.

    THE WOMAN'S ADVOCATE 1869

  • Page: 278 The Woman's Advocate. feel that the present excitement among women, and to them "onpleasantness," is unaccountable -- who can't possibly comprehend why the women will not be "content within their sphere" -- why they can't all be "housekeepers" -- might be enlightened if they would but study the subject a little from Mr. Tulliver's stand-point.

    The Woman's Advocate. 1869

  • Page: 278 The Woman's Advocate. feel that the present excitement among women, and to them "onpleasantness," is unaccountable -- who can't possibly comprehend why the women will not be "content within their sphere" -- why they can't all be "housekeepers" -- might be enlightened if they would but study the subject a little from Mr. Tulliver's stand-point.

    Tulliver's Philosophy. 1869

  • The nation's 433,000 hotel maids (also called housekeepers) make a median wage of $9.42 per hour, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor S.atistics.

    The Seattle Times 2009

  • I still am displeased w/Hyatt and the amount of pressure and the public relations disaster it took to get this far - with Hyatt still calling the housekeepers ... or someone else?

    Blue Mass. Group - Front Page 2009

  • But when the plod were called in, they found that the details for the sellers matched the address of the Beckhams 'long term housekeepers,

    The Inquirer 2008

  • While condemning gay sex as disordered and at the same time insisting on celibacy in an age in which heterosexual clerics can no longer get away with the hypocrisy of "housekeepers", the Vatican is gradually creating a predominantly gay priesthood in all but the developing world.

    The Vatican: a very Italian institution 2010

  • Throughout the Middle East, one finds guest workers many from the Phillipines and Indonesiawho, while working legally, are relegated to non career tasks such as housekeepers and servants in the petro states.

    Firedoglake » Weeding Out the Racists 2006

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