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housecleaner

housecleaner noun: someone who cleans a house; especially, someone employed to do it.

Noun

housecleaner (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

Forms of housecleaner

pluralhousecleaners

Origin of housecleaner

From house + cleaner.

Questions about housecleaner

What does housecleaner mean?
Housecleaner means someone who cleans a house; especially, someone employed to do it.
What part of speech is housecleaner?
Housecleaner is a noun.
What is the plural of housecleaner?
The plural of housecleaner is housecleaners.

Words near housecleaner in the dictionary

  1. housecat
  2. housecats
  3. housecest
  4. houseclean
  5. housecleaned
  6. housecleaner
  7. housecleaners
  8. housecleaning
  9. housecleanings
  10. housecleans
  11. housecloth

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