janitorial

[jan-i-tawr-ee-uhl]

adjective

1. of or relating to a janitor, a person employed in an apartment, office, school building, etc., to clean public areas, remove garbage, and do minor repairs.

   Our janitorial product supply includes a wide spectrum of cleaning products.

Word History and Origins

Origin of janitorial¹

janitor ( def. ) + -ial ( def. )

Example Sentences

But many of his ideological precursors hailed government threats and cheered for Big Brother to assert janitorial duties in the “wasteland.”

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In the new series, Dunder Mifflin, the office in “The Office,” has been absorbed into a company called Enervate, which deals in office supplies, janitorial paper and local newspapers, “in order of quality.”

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He’s the one doing the janitorial work.

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At a May meeting, the warden told all executive staff that they needed to come to work dressed down on Tuesdays and Thursdays, the staffer said, because they would have to start doing janitorial work.

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The labor — waitressing, janitorial — was physically demanding, the wages terrible, the treatment by bosses and customers often worse.

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