housecleaner

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noun

Someone who cleans a house; especially, someone employed to do it.

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Meanings

nounhousecleaner (plural housecleaners)

plural housecleaners

  1. Someone who cleans a house; especially, someone employed to do it.

    Diligent Romanians became the strawberry pickers, construction workers and housecleaners of choice, doing jobs that workers in richer neighboring countries no longer wanted.

    2009 February 15, Dan Bilefsky, “In Romania, Children Left Behind Suffer the Strains of Migration”, in New York Times

Origin

From house + cleaner.

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APA

housecleaner. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/housecleaner

MLA

“housecleaner.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/housecleaner. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “housecleaner,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/housecleaner.

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