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

She worked incognito in jobs around the country at the bottom end of the pay scale: waitress, hotel maid, cleaning woman, a Walmart clerk, averaging about $7 an hour.

From Washington Post • Sep. 2, 2022

“I had to keep the paint-room door locked to keep the cleaning woman and my daughter and anyone else from coming in,” she said of the basement where she painted.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2022

A cleaning woman lets her in, but that doesn't bring much in the way of relief as all her stuff is missing.

From Salon • Apr. 22, 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

The cleaning woman, always in a hurry, simply flung anything that was momentarily useless into Gregor's room.

From "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka