Synonym: housekeeping. Similar words: caseworker, homework, make-work, framework, fireworks, the working class, working hour, be worth. Meaning: n. the work of cleaning and running a house.
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121. I've got to catch up on the housework this weekend.
122. The ruling meant he could not receive the ￡20-￡30 pocket money allowed to au pairs, or officially help with the housework.
123. This suggests that the personal identification of women with the housewife role weights the balance in favour of a psychological involvement in housework.
124. The only difference in this definition between employment work and housework is housework's lack of pay.
125. In addition, she did all the housework, her graduate studies, and held down two part-time jobs.
126. Housework is not unique in this respect: other occupations also have apprenticeship schemes.
127. The maid would go and all of them would pitch in with the housework.
128. Well, I did all my housework this morning, though you wouldn't think it to look at the place now.
129. That's why I still cope now with all the everyday things like the ironing and housework.
130. The women could obtain permission from the agent to purchase the knives they needed for housework and tanning.
131. There are no conflicts about who does the housework, shopping(sentencedict.com), gardening or pays the bills - I do!
132. A lack of structure is intrinsic to housework; thus a psychological structure is imported to it.
133. I loved getting the housework done during the week and then playing on the weekend, all the vacuuming done.
134. None of these writers looks at housework satisfaction; the notion of feminine domesticity is undefined and usually rather vague.
135. She says she does not like housework but she can manage some tasks.
136. She had several readily usable areas of special knowledge, although she thought she only knew about babies and housework.
137. According to the other, housework provides the opportunity for endless creative and leisure pursuits.
138. She put Hansel in a little cage and ordered Gretel to do housework.
139. Her only proviso is that she won't do any housework.
140. Most enjoyed the luxury of employing a cleaner to do their housework but a few took a puritanical delight in doing their own.
141. Thus some feminists have argued that there should be wages for housework.
142. And, lastly, the definition of rules for housework establishes a mechanism whereby the housewife can reward herself for doing it.
143. And he knew I was a soft touch, that I did most of the housework so he could be free.
144. Then she would do housework, but it was such an austere cottage that there was hardly anything to do.
145. The resultant comparison with housework persistently branded it as a less enjoyed and less enjoyable occupation.
146. Unusually for the period he suited the action to the word and helped his wife to do the housework.
147. Until now all that women were taught to do, from housework to carpet weaving, was devalued and poorly paid.
148. Sometimes humans put out bowls of milk for us and we do all the housework for them.
149. I have to drag myself out of bed each day, and I can't get up the energy to do any housework.
150. She cooks the teas and does the housework and everything.
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