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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

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

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

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

"Dead?" said Mrs. Samsa and looked questioningly at the cleaning woman, although she could check everything on her own and even understand without a check.

From "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka

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