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housekeeping

/hous-kee-ping/US // ˈhaʊsˌki pɪŋ //UK // (ˈhaʊsˌkiːpɪŋ) //

家政服务,家政,家务管理,家务

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the maintenance of a house or domestic establishment.
    • : the management of household affairs.
    • : the management, care, and servicing of property and equipment of an industrial or commercial building or organization.
    • : the ongoing routine, procedures, operations, and management of a commercial enterprise, government, organization, or the like.
    • : Computers. system tasks, as initialization and managing peripheral devices, that must be done to permit a computer program to execute properly but that do not directly contribute to program output.

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Examples

  • Some people are able to enjoy long, sustained periods of cellular housekeeping and repair and others are not.

  • Pair this with the disproportionate challenges faced by women in higher education during the pandemic – such as caregiving and housekeeping – and the crisis has intensified.

  • Many men at their level have spouses who handle childcare and housekeeping, but most senior-level women don’t have that kind of support.

  • The virus sickened a half-dozen members of the hospital’s housekeeping staff, which had been given limited personal protective equipment.

  • Beyond its unique housekeeping model, the site is betting on subscriptions.

  • He moves her with no more concern for her condition than if she were a bag of dirty linen left behind by housekeeping.

  • Housekeeping: I have some travel today and tomorrow, so this is today's last post.

  • I know how important it is to have a brilliant housekeeping team, but even I was shocked at what I discovered.

  • Taking on the role of emcee, Jimmy Kimmel shared a few housekeeping reminders with the audience.

  • Symbolically, Winfrey gives a difficult, even shocking story, the equivalent of the Good Housekeeping seal of approval.

  • "Setting up housekeeping" proved to be an absorbing task, indeed.

  • The pages of Gertrude's housekeeping looked like what they were, a perfect and simple system of accounts.

  • He had won three silver cups, two rifles, and a silver coffee-pot; this would be of use to him when he began housekeeping.

  • The two might have vowed eternal friendship and set up housekeeping together on a platonic footing.

  • And, for that matter, he's close enough now in some things, and screws me down in the housekeeping pretty tight.