housekeeping.
The chores of maintaining a house as a residence, especially cleaning.
Meaning & usage
The chores of maintaining a house as a residence, especially cleaning.
The chores of maintaining a house as a residence, especially cleaning. Those workers of an establishment who maintain a house through cleaning, etc.
Any general tasks that involve preparation.
The computer program does some general housekeeping involving initializing variables and opening files before beginning the main processing.
Announcements that must be made before a show or event can begin.
Thank you all for coming! Just some quick housekeeping before we get underway, the emergency exits are to your left...
Hospitality; a liberal and hospitable table; a supply of provisions.
Where this word comes from
From house + keeping.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.