English

Noun

1. The chores of maintaining a house as a residence, especially cleaning.
2. Any general tasks that involve preparation.

   The computer program does some general housekeeping involving initializing variables and opening files before beginning the main processing.

Translations

• Household management, the cleaning and maintenance of a household or a building
• House work, chores related to household management
• Janitorial work
• Repair and maintenance, an expense item for the purposes of accounting and taxation
• Garbage collection (computer science), deletion of unneeded temporary computer file or freeing computer memory
• Housekeeping genes in metabolism
• Housekeeping (novel), a novel by Marilynne Robinson
• Housekeeping (1987), a film version of the novel starring Christine Lahti
• Housekeeping (2001), a short film

See also

• Housekeeper