as in maid
a female domestic servant
they hired a housekeeper to help their aging parents live at home
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Meanwhile, Danza is known for playing housekeeper Tony Micelli (also a former ballplayer) on Who's the Boss?, which aired from 1984 to 1992.
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Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 23 Nov. 2024
Others believed former school teacher John Mark Karr, who confessed to the 1996 strangulation in 2006, as a prime suspect; the family housekeeper Linda Hoffman-Pugh; or the town’s Santa Claus Bill McReynolds as the potential killer.
—Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2024
Watch on Deadline Dynevor will play Du Maurier, Thurman the housekeeper and Hopkins the wealthy and widowed Lord DeWithers.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2024
Mata, a Hispanic housekeeper and UNITE HERE union leader at the W San Francisco, helped lead a successful push at her hotel for workers to be equipped with panic buttons in 2018 to summon security help in an emergency, now implemented by several major hotel chains.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2024
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Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 23 Nov. 2024
Others believed former school teacher John Mark Karr, who confessed to the 1996 strangulation in 2006, as a prime suspect; the family housekeeper Linda Hoffman-Pugh; or the town’s Santa Claus Bill McReynolds as the potential killer.
—Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2024
Watch on Deadline Dynevor will play Du Maurier, Thurman the housekeeper and Hopkins the wealthy and widowed Lord DeWithers.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2024
Mata, a Hispanic housekeeper and UNITE HERE union leader at the W San Francisco, helped lead a successful push at her hotel for workers to be equipped with panic buttons in 2018 to summon security help in an emergency, now implemented by several major hotel chains.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2024
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“Housekeeper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/housekeeper. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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