houseworker
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of houseworker
Example Sentences
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His father was a sign-painter, and his mother was a domestic houseworker.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 4, 2016
She got a lift into town and eventually found a job as a houseworker.
From Time Magazine Archive
My own household has been adequately and pleasantly served, during these many years, with the changes of houseworker that the monotony of the work and other circumstances make inevitable.
From Time Magazine Archive
If there is a houseworker who begins her work at 6:30 a. m., as Miss Jacobsen asserts, I have failed to find or hear about her in 25 years of housekeeping.
From Time Magazine Archive
If she be a houseworker, and many will prefer to be, she will be so valuable in that line as to command much respect and good wages.
From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV by Ida Husted Harper
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