Charwoman

Word CHARWOMAN
Character 9
Hyphenation char wom an
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Charwoman"

What do we mean by charwoman?

A woman hired to do cleaning or similar work, usually in a large building. noun

A woman hired to do chares or odd work, or to work by the day. noun

A woman hired for odd work or for single days. noun

A woman employed to do housework. noun

A human female employed to do housework noun

A woman employed to do housework, traditionally coming and going on a daily basis and paid weekly wages.

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The word "charwoman" in example sentences

WILLIS: A charwoman is a person who cleans a building, so she is responsible for cleaning up the building. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Normally, the chef would call a charwoman to clean up that sort of mess. ❋ Elle Newmark (2008)

They had been lifted from a garbage can used by bureaucrats in some Soviet Russian Consulate, pilfered by what old British spy novelists used to call a "charwoman", in Yankee parlance, a janitor. ❋ Richard H. Smith (2010)

(I say charwoman, meaning a woman who is paid to do work that other servants are hired to do, but will not.) [Illustration] ❋ Dion Clayton Calthrop (1907)

She usually dressed rather in the style of a superior kind of charwoman, and it was not so very surprising that she should have imagined that she was one; and still less that people should accept her statement and help her to get work. ❋ 1870-1916 Saki (1893)

The party of travellers was stopped short in the customs shed by the sight of a white cockney charwoman on her knees, scrubbing the floor. ❋ Unknown (2011)

A charwoman-actress once captivated Mexican high society in her alter ego as Don Carlos Balmori ❋ Unknown (2009)

From the theatre, we lost: Daniel, our doorkeeper; two stagehands; one of the dray horses not from plague, of course; Mary, the wig mistress; and Sue, our charwoman. ❋ Priya Parmar (2011)

A plaid shawl borrowed from the washerwoman, a ragged scrubbing skirt borrowed from the charwoman, and a gray wig rented from a costumer for twenty-five cents a night, completed the outfit; for Edna had elected to be an old Irishwoman singing broken-heartedly after her wandering boy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Sexually frustrated Acacius, in Halston's expert hands, is a scream, while Fraser's turn as both Walburga and an Irish charwoman, is a comic gem. ❋ Fern Siegel (2010)

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