What's the difference between charwoman and charwomen?
Charwoman
Definition:
(n.) A woman hired for odd work or for single days.
Example Sentences:
(1) The days of the 9-5 were decades away; instead many worked on average 12-15 hours a day, every day, and not just in what we might consider "normal" women's jobs such as domestic service, charwoman, laundress or shirt-maker.
(2) Fiercely loyal to his mother until her death in 1994, he enjoyed the paradox of her being his mayoress while she was still the town hall charwoman.
(3) And on the school run everyone says it is coming to a choice between lose the family skiing holiday or try sex trafficking, though God knows where you start in Notting Hill, I know someone saw a year-five mother auctioning an au pair outside Lidgate, apparently there is this amazing asylum-seeker who will do a month's maths coaching for a 12-portion beef bourguignon pie, serious bargain, but what happens to the homework of children of mothers who may only have an old charwoman to sell, I mean no offence but how is that even fair?
Charwomen
Definition:
(pl. ) of Charwoman
Example Sentences:
(1) These were not women who would get their names in the papers, but they had stories to tell.” When he moved to New York and began to work as a reporter, Talese went in search of comparable stories from “doormen and charwomen and waiters”.
(2) craftsmen, charwomen, laundress, kitchenhelp, servants and so on.
(3) A number of other cause specific associations (which appear to confirm proportionate Decennial Supplement analyses) were suggested by the data; examples include high levels of mortality from ischaemic heart disease among cooks, lung cancer and respiratory disease among charwomen and cleaners, and accidents, poisonings, and violence among several groups of professional and technical workers.
(4) Based on the results of an analysis of a group of all naturally terminated pregnancies in the district of Gottwaldov in 1981-1983 (6166 pregnancies), as compared with the mean an increased ratio of reproductive losses was recorded in charwomen, hairdressers, teachers, engineers with university education.
(5) Vaccinations for the prevention of hepatitis A should therefore reach individuals that have an increased occupational risk: food-handlers, health care workers in infectious diseases and paediatrics, medical staff in laboratories handling stool samples, medical charwomen and, according to previously published work, staff of day care centres and sewerage workers.
(6) When an evaluation of anti-HAV prevalence data was carried out on persons younger than 30 years who comprised subsets of the medical staff, the relative risk was: charwomen 4.2, food-handlers 2.49, and paediatric nurses 1.84, showing that they had higher prevalence rates than nurses 1.25, physicians 1.09 and laboratory assistants 0.93.