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 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

The film was a delicate, delightfully weird love story between a cleaning woman and a fish-man kept at a top-secret government facility.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 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

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

From New York Times • Oct. 31, 2020

The cleaning woman shut the door and opened the window wide.

From "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka