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
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.
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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.
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She got a lift into town and eventually found a job as a houseworker.
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“Pretty good general houseworker, eh?” and the dignified professor of English at Wellington College ran nimbly down the ladder and hugged his wife.
From Molly Brown's College Friends by Nell Speed
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