housekeep

[hous-keep]

verb (used without object)

housekept, housekeeping 

1. to keep or maintain a house.

Word History and Origins

Origin of housekeep¹

First recorded in 1835–45; back formation from housekeeping

Example Sentences

"I'm including the housekeeping, the janitorial, the booking staff, the maintenance, as well as the consultants, the doctors, the nurses, physios and others," she added.

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The Post Oak was in the midst of a “pillow transition,” the assistant director of housekeeping explained apologetically—something luxury hotels do roughly every two years—so she wasn’t immediately sure which pillow I’d experienced.

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It’s also exactly what you’d do in wartime if you wanted to remove someone else’s satellite and make it look like housekeeping.

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Services available to tenants for a fee include personal training and private yoga instruction, dry cleaning pickup and delivery, car washing, dog walking, grocery delivery and housekeeping.

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Given that the boat serves excellent food, top-shelf liquor, free Wi-Fi and twice-daily housekeeping, even my modest math skills calculated that this was a very good deal indeed.

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