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housekeeps

housekeeps is the third-person singular simple present indicative of housekeep.

Meaning of housekeep

Verb

housekeep (third-person singular simple present housekeeps, present participle housekeeping, simple past and past participle housekept)

  1. (intransitive) To carry out the domestic duties of housekeeping.
    • I would go to school, and practise, and housekeep, and club; all in their proper proportions⁠——1904, Carolyn Wells, “The Decision”, in Patty at Home, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, →OCLC, page 24
  2. (ambitransitive) To perform the general tasks of housekeeping.
    • The clock burst which enables the supervisor to housekeep the console input and output and to change program status is currently set to 200 ms.1965, P. A. Crisman, The compatible time-sharing system: a programmer's guide, page 14

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Questions about housekeeps

What is housekeeps the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Housekeeps is the third-person singular simple present indicative of housekeep.

Words near housekeeps in the dictionary

  1. housekeepers
  2. housekeeping
  3. housekeeping bill
  4. housekeeping bills
  5. housekeepings
  6. housekeeps
  7. housekept
  8. housekey
  9. housekeys
  10. Houseknecht
  11. Houseknechts

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