cleaning woman

American  

noun

1. a woman employed to sweep, mop, dust, or do general cleaning in a house, office, hotel, or the like.

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Example Sentences

Will they take note, as I hope they do, of Dolly De Leon’s revelatory performance as a yacht cleaning woman who nails her own “I am the captain now” moment?

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2022

She was a cleaning woman at Duke University and she was of that generation of Black Americans whose occupation all too often belied both their ambition and their abilities.

From Washington Post • Jan. 19, 2022

I was working as a cleaning woman in the library during the day and doing underground theater in the evening.

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2021

In "The Anatomy Lesson," we meet a cleaning woman, Olivia, described as "a small, bottom-heavy, earthbound stranger, the color of bittersweet chocolate."

From Salon • Feb. 7, 2021

Grace looked up, saw it was only the cleaning woman, and returned to the sports photographs she was sorting.

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin