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Etymology

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house +‎ cleaner

Noun

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housecleaner (plural housecleaners)

  1. Someone who cleans a house; especially, someone employed to do it.
    Hypernym: cleaner
    • 2009 February 15, Dan Bilefsky, “In Romania, Children Left Behind Suffer the Strains of Migration”, in New York Times[1]:
      Diligent Romanians became the strawberry pickers, construction workers and housecleaners of choice, doing jobs that workers in richer neighboring countries no longer wanted.
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