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

“I had to keep the paint-room door locked to keep the cleaning woman and my daughter and anyone else from coming in,” she said of the basement where she painted.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2022

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

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

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

From Salon • Feb. 7, 2021

Soon they realized that they were paying a cleaning woman and doing most of the work themselves anyhow.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith