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Definition of Housekeeping
Housekeeping

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.

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

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Housekeeping Quotations

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
Henry David Thoreau

He taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house.
Zsa Zsa Gabor

There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.
Eleanor Roosevelt

I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry level magazine job at 21, working in the fiction department at Good Housekeeping and then working as a fashion editor there as well as writing many articles for the magazine.
Judith Krantz

Living inside the shuttle was a little like camping out. We ended up sleeping in our seats. You had to pay attention to housekeeping, not get things too dirty.
Robert Crippen

Housekeeping Translations

housekeeping in German is Haushaltung
housekeeping in Spanish is gobierno de la casa


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