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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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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

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

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

His mother, Effie, occasionally got work as a cleaning woman.

From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 2020

Angela took the dish towel from the cleaning woman and bunched it against her face to muffle the wrenching sobs.

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin

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