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# housekeeping

«housekeeping» in Mova's school dictionary: **The work of looking after a home: cleaning, cooking…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The work of looking after a home: cleaning, cooking, shopping and paying bills. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/housekeeping/#m1)

2) (in hotels and hospitals) The department that cleans the rooms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/housekeeping/#m2)

3) Money set aside for running a home («the housekeeping»). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/housekeeping/#m3)

4) (informal) Small tidy-up jobs in an organisation, such as updating files or checking dates. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/housekeeping/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and lessons about the home it covers all the jobs that keep a house running. In stories, Mole takes pride in his housekeeping, and Rat is a good housekeeper. Sense 4 is used at meetings: «a few housekeeping notes before we start».

### examples

- Housekeeping takes a lot of time in a big family. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/housekeeping/#x1)
- Ring housekeeping and ask for more towels. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/housekeeping/#x2)
- Mum keeps the housekeeping money in a jar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/housekeeping/#x3)
- Mole was proud of his tidy housekeeping. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/housekeeping/#x4)
- Before the assembly, the head did some housekeeping: lost property and the bus times. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/housekeeping/#x5)
- Learning housekeeping skills helps you live on your own. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/housekeeping/#x6)
- She looked after all the housekeeping, prepared the meals, washed the linen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/housekeeping/#x7)

### note

Uncountable: no «a», no plural. A «housekeeper» is a person paid to run a house. Everyone in a home can share the housekeeping, not only one person.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «housekeeping» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/housekeeping/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.