roomkeeper
roomkeeper noun: a person employed by a hotel or similar establishment to clean, maintain and restock the rooms.
Noun
roomkeeper (plural roomkeepers)
- A person employed by a hotel or similar establishment to clean, maintain and restock the rooms.
- While the vast majority of guests are polite, pleasant, and appreciative of the importance of the roomkeeper's work, there are others, on occasion, who are silly, rude, overbearing, intoxicated, menacing, or annoying.1974, Bruce H. Axler, Room Care for Hotels and Motels, page 55
- However, if a one-half hour meeting means one less room accomplished per roomkeeper, the housekeeper is challenged to cover this time somehow.1997, The Rooms Chronicle, volumes 5-9, page 70
Forms of roomkeeper
| plural | roomkeepers |
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Origin of roomkeeper
From room + keeper.
Questions about roomkeeper
- What does roomkeeper mean?
- Roomkeeper means a person employed by a hotel or similar establishment to clean, maintain and restock the rooms.
- What part of speech is roomkeeper?
- Roomkeeper is a noun.
- What is the plural of roomkeeper?
- The plural of roomkeeper is roomkeepers.
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