Synonyms:
housework, housekeeping
Meaning: the work of cleaning and running a house
Usage examples
He knew no more about housekeeping than she did.
I don't think I know anything about housekeeping."
At the dinner-table Ernest complimented me on my good housekeeping.
But here's for the housekeeping," he said, taking ten roubles from his pocketbook.
Billy was well aware now that housekeeping was a matter of more than muffins and date puffs.
I feel a forty-horse power of housekeeping developing within me; and what fun it will be to get your letters!
If, when a newly-married couple go to housekeeping, she slyly takes her mother's dish-cloth or dish-wiper, she will never be homesick.
Then they explored his cottage, much amused by his queer housekeeping, cracked nuts on the hearth, and roasted apples on a string in front of the fire.
So the little girls amused themselves with their housekeeping, while Clarence and Towser ran races up and down the greensward until it was time to return.
She was neat, capable, and obliging; but it did not take her long to discover just how much--and how little--her mistress really knew of practical housekeeping.