janitorial

[ jan-i-tawr-ee-uhl ]

adjective

1. of or relating to a janitor, a person employed in an apartment, office, school building, etc., to clean public areas, remove garbage, and do minor repairs:

   Our janitorial product supply includes a wide spectrum of cleaning products.

Word History and Origins

Origin of janitorial¹

janitor ( def ) + -ial ( def )

Example Sentences

Most of Amazon’s workforce labors in warehouses, and the janitors who clean up after Google workers don’t get the same benefits and protections as employees.

From Washington Post

Many of the folks he daps are simply secretaries, security, and even the janitorial staff.

From The Daily Beast

It creates a new visa category, a W visa, for non-farm temporary workers in areas like janitorial services, construction, retail.

From The Daily Beast

His father ran a janitorial business and Tucker would help out by working as a janitor as the local Burger King.

From The Daily Beast

At that time his assignments and activities were primary janitorial.

From Project Gutenberg

Were they in some kind of a janitorial uniform so that you could tell that they were employees?

From Project Gutenberg

Besides, I was ignorant then of janitorial tyranny as the accepted code.

From Project Gutenberg

We had not awakened as yet to the fulness of janitorial tyranny and power.

From Project Gutenberg