housekeep

[ hous-keep ]
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verb (used without object),house·kept, house·keep·ing.
  1. to keep or maintain a house.

Origin of housekeep

1
First recorded in 1835–45; back formation from housekeeping

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How to use housekeep in a sentence

  • You know you said it was not worth while for me to learn to housekeep.

    A Life For a Love | L. T. Meade
  • Yes; reckon she'll housekeep for your uncle till you get back; won't ye, Nellie?

    Contemporary One-Act Plays | Sir James M. Barrie
  • Judge Dickinson wants me to go to Alfred and housekeep for him, and I'd named twelve dollars a month.

    The Story Of Waitstill Baxter | By Kate Douglas Wiggin
  • Twelve years before she had come here to "housekeep," as the old phrase went.

    A Little Girl in Old Boston | Amanda Millie Douglas
  • We will still be husband and wife; we will take a small lodging, and you shall housekeep and live in-doors.

    The Grey Woman and other Tales | Mrs. (Elizabeth) Gaskell