Housekeeping
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Housekeeping has the following meanings:
- The cleaning and maintenance of a household, i.e. the performance of household chores. See also household management.
- The work of a housekeeper, the servant responsible for cleaning and maintaining a residence.
- Another word for Janitorial work, the maintenance of a clean environment in industrial, commercial, and institutional settings.
- Another word for garbage collection (computer science), the deletion of unneeded temporary files or freeing computer memory.
- Housekeeping genes are critical in cell metabolism, and typically have a conserved sequence.
- Housekeeping (2001 film), a 2001 short film.
- Housekeeping (novel), a novel by Marilynne Robinson and Housekeeping (1987 film) a film version of the novel starring Christine Lahti.
