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/hˈaʊskˌipɪŋ/ Listen

noun

Housekeeping n.

The state of occupying a dwelling house as a householder.

Care of domestic concerns; management of a house and home affairs.

Hospitality; a liberal and hospitable table; a supply of provisions. (Obs.) "Tell me, softly and hastily, what's in the pantry? Small housekeeping enough, said Phoebe."

adjective

Housekeeping adj. Domestic; used in a family; as, housekeeping commodities.

verb

house-keep, housekeep v. i. To take care of all household-related business.

Synonyms: house-keep, maintain a household, keep house.

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Etymology of 'Housekeeping'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Housekeeping" Quotes from Famous Books

... Rainsford that the greatest lack of even decent surroundings prevails, and where the condition of the inmates is the worst. Here the fault seems to lie not only with the commissioners, but with the matrons in charge, for there is no system discernible in the housekeeping arrangements whatever. The infirmary is occupied by those women who are not able to get about; and the rooms composing that part of the building are pleasant and airy of themselves, but they are spoiled ...

— White Slaves • Louis A Banks

... marry; you settle down in his valley. But first you have to learn housekeeping so that you can make an omelette or possibly a pudding for tourists or Englishmen that ...

— Look Back on Happiness • Knut Hamsun

... often a stumbling block in the path of lovers. Balt Van Tassel was an easy, indulgent soul; he loved his daughter better even than his pipe, and, like a reasonable man and an excellent father, let her have her way in everything. His notable little wife, too, had enough to do to attend to her housekeeping and manage her poultry; for, as she sagely observed, ducks and geese are foolish things, and must be looked after, but girls can take care of themselves. Thus, while the busy dame bustled about the house, or plied her spinning-wheel at one end of the piazza, honest ...

— Legends That Every Child Should Know • Hamilton Wright Mabie

... be spent to infinitely better advantage in the store, than by giving orders at the door, by phone or mail. Every housekeeper knows how large a proportion of the housekeeping money is swallowed up by the butcher's bill, so that with the meat item careful selection is most necessary in order to keep the ...

— The Story of Crisco • Marion Harris Neil

... artist, if he wishes to succeed, cannot afford to hamper himself with a wife and contend with the endless sordid details of housekeeping conducted on a necessarily economical scale. It slowly but surely deadens the artist in him—the delicate creative inspiration that is so easily smothered by material cares and worries. Nan refused to blame Maryon simply because he had not married ...

— The Moon out of Reach • Margaret Pedler

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