(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?
Cinderella
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) It has announced a four-stage programme of reforms that will tackle most of these stubborn and longstanding problems, including Cinderella issues such as how energy companies treat their small business customers.
(2) The fairytales – which have been distributed by leaflet to universities around Singapore – include versions of Cinderella, the Three Little Pigs, Rapunzel and Snow White, each involving a reworked tale that relates to fertility, sex or marriage, and a resulting moral.
(3) This fiscal Cinderella, once called rates and now council tax, has been hated by chancellors down the ages, largely because it is not collected and controlled by them.
(4) "There are so many competing areas that private fostering is still the Cinderella service at the bottom of the pile."
(5) Later in the year she is charged with a public order offence and common assault after allegedly attacking a theatre manager during a family production of Cinderella.
(6) Lily James, who plays Lady Rose, is the star of the new Cinderella film due to premiere this week.
(7) The circular economy at Disney World may not be as pretty as Cinderella’s Castle, but this process for turning organic waste into energy, which is known as anaerobic digestion , could turn out to be the best way to extract value from food scraps and treated sewage that would otherwise wind up in a landfill.
(8) "Energy saving is the cheapest way of closing the gap between demand and supply, yet it is the Cinderella of the energy ball.
(9) That means more resources devoted to further education colleges, currently the Cinderellas of the education service, and to university technical colleges, for those whose skills are technical and vocational rather than academic.
(10) As Peggy Orenstein, author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter, pointed out: "In the end, it wasn't about being brave at all.
(11) Thereafter, she appeared only occasionally on television as a guest, and sometimes acted in pantomime, as in Cinderella at Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, in 2010.
(12) Digital rights will always be one of those Cinderella issues while the voting system focuses politicians' attention solely on a handful of swing voters in a small number of marginal constituencies.
(13) Its Three Little Pigs, Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood show it is perfectly possible to make a fairytale app with craft and care, while ensuring that interactivity and inventive use of device features like the camera and accelerometer don't detract from the app's main purpose: storytelling.
(14) Outside, a more than faintly surreal urban beach scene in a June downpour: battered garden chairs and tables, dripping merry-go-round horse, Cinderella's pumpkin.
(15) As a metaphor, the Cinderella law – the name of proposed changes to the child neglect laws , meaning that mothers and fathers who starve their offspring of love and affection could be criminally prosecuted – is perfectly apt.
(16) The magic of reading a whole book in one sitting because I couldn’t tear my child away from the kids’ club (“Cinderella is coming later and we’re going to play bingo with Donald”).
(17) Incidentally, it also features small roles for Frances de la Tour and Emilia Fox, who also pop up as minor characters in another forthcoming London-set noir, Trap for Cinderella , by Iain Softley.
(18) Royal Ballet Christmas season Instead of its regular Christmas staples – The Nutcracker, Cinderella or The Tales of Beatrix Potter – the Royal is courting the festive box office with two recent productions: Christopher Wheeldon’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Carlos Acosta’s Don Quixote.
(19) The proposal of a Cinderella law sparked outrage, and a lot of jokes about parents being dragged to court for refusing to buy their kid a pony.
(20) US box office chart 17-19 April Fast & Furious 7 : $29.1m, $294.4m Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 : $24m – New Unfriended: $16m – New Home : $10.3m, $142.6m The Longest Ride : $6.8m, $23.5m Get Hard : $6.8m, $78.2m Monkey Kingdom : $4.7m – New Woman in Gold : $4.5m The Divergent Series: Insurgent : $4.1m, $120.6m Cinderella : $3.8m, $186.3m