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

How did “The Shape of Water,” a movie about a mute cleaning woman falling truly, madly, deeply in love with a fish-man, wind up winning the Oscar for best picture?

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2023

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

This is evident as he harangues Wondrous, the cleaning woman who works in his wife's Greenwich Village townhouse.

From Salon • Feb. 7, 2021

Venise Jules, 55, a cleaning woman at a grade school and the mother of Ms. Molière, the unemployed secretary, said her entire family had voted for Mr. Moïse.

From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2019

Otis Amber leaped to his feet as Ed Plum led the cleaning woman through the door.

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin