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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
housekeep .
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Examples
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Or, rather, she lives with him and housekeeps for him.
The Hermit of Far End Margaret Pedler
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Whoever housekeeps for me has to undertake all this, and has to make a certain sum of money cover a certain expenditure.
Polly A New-Fashioned Girl L. T. Meade 1884
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And Milly, my sister-in-law, who perpetually laughs at nothing and housekeeps for Papa, since her husband, my eldest brother, Henry Irving, died.”
Final Curtain Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1935
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"My dear Wanda," put in Deulin, in a voice of gravest protest, "you surely do not expect that of a lady who housekeeps for all humanity.
The Vultures Henry Seton Merriman 1882
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