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1housework — housework, sociology of housework Until relatively recently, sociologists studied women as paid employees outside the home, or as wives and mothers but did not consider unpaid domestic labour (the various tasks of cleaning, cooking, and so forth …
2Housework — House work , n. The work belonging to housekeeping; especially, kitchen work, sweeping, scrubbing, bed making, and the like. [1913 Webster] …
3housework — [n] cleaning, maintaining a home administration, bed making, cooking, domestic art, domestic science, dusting, home economics, homemaking, housecraft, housekeeping, ironing, laundering, management, mopping, sewing, stewardship, sweeping, washing; …
4housework — ► NOUN ▪ regular work done in housekeeping, such as cleaning and cooking …
5housework — [hous′wʉrk΄] n. the work involved in housekeeping, such as cleaning, cooking, and laundering …
6housework — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ heavy, light ▪ The doctor said I could do a little light housework. VERB + HOUSEWORK ▪ do ▪ I spent all morning doing housework …
7housework — house|work [ˈhauswə:k US wə:rk] n [U] work that you do to take care of a house, for example washing, cleaning etc →↑chore do (the) housework ▪ I spent all morning doing the housework. ▪ I don t like doing housework. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ HINT sense 1 Do not… …
8housework — n. to do housework * * * [ haʊswɜːk] to do housework …
9housework — [[t]ha͟ʊswɜː(r)k[/t]] N UNCOUNT Housework is the work such as cleaning, washing, and ironing that you do in your home …
10housework — noun (U) work that you do to take care of a house such as washing, cleaning etc: I spent all morning doing the housework. housing / haUzIN/ noun 1 (U) the houses or conditions that people live in: health problems caused by bad housing 2 (U) the… …