Housecleaner

noun

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Noun
  1. 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."

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"Diligent Romanians became the strawberry pickers, construction workers and housecleaners of choice, doing jobs that workers in richer neighboring countries no longer wanted."

Etymology

From house + cleaner.

Related phrases

clean house

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