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   housekeeping

   /ˈhaʊsˌkiːpɪŋ/

   noun

   • 1. the management of household affairs: "I took care of the housekeeping and cooked most of the meals"
   • ▪ money set aside or given for running a household: "writing barely pays my part of the housekeeping"
   • 2. operations such as maintenance or record-keeping which facilitate productive work in an organization.
   • ▪ the regulation of metabolic functions that are common to all cells: "housekeeping genes"

   Scrabble Points: 22

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