house·keep·ing
(hous′kē′pĭng)n.
1. Performance or management of household tasks.
2. Management and maintenance of the property of an institution or organization.
3. Routine tasks and procedures carried out in the functioning of an operation or system.
4. A department in a hotel or institution that is in charge of cleaning and minor maintenance.
house′keep′ v.
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housekeeping
(ˈhaʊsˌkiːpɪŋ)n
1. the running of a household
2. (Banking & Finance) money allocated for the running of a household
3. organization and tidiness in general, as of an office, shop, etc
4. (Computer Science) the general maintenance of a computer storage system, including removal of obsolete files, documentation, security copying, etc
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house•keep•ing
(ˈhaʊsˌki pɪŋ)n.
1. the maintenance of a house or domestic establishment.
2. the management of household affairs.
3. the routine management and servicing of any system.
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| Noun | 1. |  housekeeping - the work of cleaning and running a housework - activity directed toward making or doing something; "she checked several points needing further work" |
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housekeeping
noun household management, homemaking (U.S.), home economy, housewifery, housecraft I thought that cooking and housekeeping were unimportant tasks.
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Translations
تَدْبير شؤون البَيْت
správa domu
husholdning
házvezetés
hússtjórn, heimilishald
správa domu
ev idaresi
housekeeping
[ˈhaʊsˌkiːpɪŋ] N (= administration) → gobierno m de la casa; (= housework) → quehaceres mpl domésticos, tareas fpl de la casa (Comput) → gestión f interna (esp Brit) (also housekeeping money) → dinero m para gastos domésticosCollins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
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housekeeping
[ˈhaʊsˌkiːpɪŋ] n (work) → andamento or governo della casa (also housekeeping money) → soldi mpl per le spese di casa (Comput) → ausilioCollins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
house
(haus) – plural houses (ˈhauziz) – noun1. a building in which people, especially a single family, live. Houses have been built on the outskirts of the town for the workers in the new industrial estate.
2. a place or building used for a particular purpose. a hen-house; a public house.
3. a theatre, or the audience in a theatre. There was a full house for the first night of the play.
4. a family, usually important or noble, including its ancestors and descendants. the house of David.
(hauz) verb1. to provide with a house, accommodation or shelter. All these people will have to be housed; The animals are housed in the barn.
2. to store or keep somewhere. The electric generator is housed in the garage.
ˈhousing (-ziŋ) noun1. houses. These flats will provide housing for the immigrants.
2. the hard cover round a machine etc.
ˈhousing benefit noun a payment given by a government to people who are entitled to it according to certain criteria (eg poverty) when they buy or rent a house, an apartment etc.
house agent (American ˈreal-estate agent) a person who arranges the sale or letting of houses.
house arrest a type of arrest in which a person is not allowed to leave his own house. He was kept under house arrest.
ˈhouseboat noun a type of boat, usually with a flat bottom, which is built to be lived in.
ˈhousebreaker noun a person who breaks into a house in order to steal.
ˈhousebreaking nounˈhouse-fly noun
the common fly, found throughout the world.
ˈhousehold noun the people who live together in a house, including their servants. How many people are there in this household?
ˈhouseholder noun the person who owns a house or pays the rent for it.
household word something which is well-known to everyone. His name is a household word throughout the country.
ˈhousekeeper noun a person, usually a woman, who is paid to look after the management of a house.
ˈhousekeeping noun the management of a house.
ˈhouseman noun a recently qualified doctor who is living in a hospital while working there to complete his training.
ˈhousetrain verb to train (a dog, cat etc) to be clean inside the house.
ˈhouse-warming noun a party given after moving into a new house.
adjectivea house-warming party.
ˈhousewife noun – plural ˈhousewives – a woman who looks after her house, her husband and her family, and who usually does not have a job outside the home.
ˈhousework noun the work of keeping a house clean and tidy. My mother has a woman to help her with the housework.
like a house on fire1. very well. The two children got on with each other like a house on fire.
2. very quickly. I'm getting through this job like a house on fire.
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