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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

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

In "The Anatomy Lesson," we meet a cleaning woman, Olivia, described as "a small, bottom-heavy, earthbound stranger, the color of bittersweet chocolate."

From Salon Feb. 7, 2021

His mother, Effie, occasionally got work as a cleaning woman.

From New York Times Oct. 31, 2020

However, once the cleaning woman had left the door to the living room slightly ajar, and it remained open even when the lodgers came in in the evening and the lights were put on.

From "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka

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