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houseworker

American  
[hous-wur-ker] / ˈhaʊsˌwɜr kər /

noun

  1. a paid employee in a home, as a maid or cook.


Etymology

Origin of houseworker

house + worker

Example Sentences

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His father was a sign-painter, and his mother was a domestic houseworker.

From Washington Post • Jun. 4, 2016

My own household has been adequately and pleasantly served, during these many years, with the changes of houseworker that the monotony of the work and other circumstances make inevitable.

From Time Magazine Archive

If there is a houseworker who begins her work at 6:30 a. m., as Miss Jacobsen asserts, I have failed to find or hear about her in 25 years of housekeeping.

From Time Magazine Archive

She got a lift into town and eventually found a job as a houseworker.

From Time Magazine Archive

She is a fairly capable houseworker when she tries.

From The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson

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