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Definition of Housecleaning
1. Noun. (figurative) the act of reforming by the removal of unwanted personnel or practices or conditions. "Many employees were discharged in a general housecleaning by the new owners"
2. Noun. The act of cleaning the rooms and furnishings of a house. "Efficient housecleaning should proceed one room at a time"
Definition of Housecleaning
1. Noun. Collectively, the tasks involved with cleaning a house; the practice of cleaning a house. ¹
2. Verb. (present participle of houseclean) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Housecleaning
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Housecleaning
Literary usage of Housecleaning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Progressive Housekeeping: Keeping House Without Knowing How, and Knowing how by Helen Alice Matthews Nitsch (1889)
"Before us lies the necessary but uninteresting matter of housecleaning. There are
very good housekeepers who say they have no housecleaning, ..."
2. A Little Housekeeping Book for a Little Girl: Or, Margaret's Saturday Mornings by Caroline French Benton (1906)
"They found the guest-room had been finished, so they sat down there and talked.
" Housecleaning is very different nowadays from what it used to be," she ..."
3. School Janitors, Mothers and Health by Helen Cordelia Putnam (1913)
"April Streets and housecleaning A Chicago mother wrote me not long ago: "I have
found rooms 74° and 76° and even 82°, and the teachers wearing 'peek-a-boo' ..."
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