(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?
Housekeeper
Definition:
(n.) A house dog.
(n.) One who does, or oversees, the work of keeping house; as, his wife is a good housekeeper; often, a woman hired to superintend the servants of a household and manage the ordinary domestic affairs.
(n.) One who occupies a house with his family; a householder; the master or mistress of a family.
(n.) One who exercises hospitality, or has a plentiful and hospitable household.
(n.) One who keeps or stays much at home.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both genes appear to be housekeeping genes and are expressed at relatively low levels in all tissues.
(2) In the studies on genomic DNA, genes with multiple transcription initiation sites were found in brain, such as CCK, CNP and MAG, in addition to NSE which was a housekeeping gene, and this may contribute to the high sequence complexity of brain RNA.
(3) Now trapped in an occupied city, she takes on a job as a housekeeper to mysterious bachelor Gabriel Ortega.
(4) Examination of the sequences at other RNA polymerase II initiation sites suggests that we have identified an element that is important in the transcription of other housekeeping genes.
(5) Brown, it emerged, had been living in a luxurious three-bedroom villa in the exclusive resort of Punta Cana, on the eastern most tip of the country with his dog and a housekeeper.
(6) The base composition of the DNA MeTase promoter is markedly different from that of other housekeeping genes.
(7) Housekeeping (constitutively active) genes always replicate early and are in the early-replicating R-bands.
(8) The first one (upstream) is active in all tissues and its promoter has some of the structural features of a housekeeping promoter; the second, located 3 kilobases downstream, is active only in erythroid cells and its promoter displays structural homologies with the beta-globin gene promoters.
(9) Maintenance of dosage compensation for housekeeping genes on the human X chromosome is mediated through differential methylation of clustered CpG nucleotides associated with these genes.
(10) But the boldest dramatic licence is in proposing that Turner’s relationship with Hannah Danby, his housekeeper (played by Dorothy Atkinson) was sexual.
(11) Glamour magazine has lost its position as the most popular women's UK monthly lifestyle title in print after more than a decade, overtaken by Good Housekeeping.
(12) She worked for decades as a housekeeper in San Francisco’s downtown hotels and is now retired.
(13) As further evidence of the housekeeping nature of the LEP100 gene, Northern blots of RNA from several adult and embryonic tissues (skeletal muscle, kidney, liver, heart, gizzard, and brain) revealed a single message for LEP100 of the same size (about 3 kilobases) in each tissue.
(14) Thus, the cell line A172 is able to survive in the absence of a functional ABL gene product, indicating that the role of ABL is unlikely to be "housekeeping."
(15) While cytosolic NADP-IDH is a "housekeeping" enzyme, expressed in multiple tissues of the mouse, differences in the relative intensities of allelic isozyme bands provide evidence for tissue- and stage-specific regulatory variation.
(16) ts11 P1 produced about sixfold more chloramphenicol acetyltransferase activity than did ts11 P2 and had features of the promoters of housekeeping genes: high G + C content, multiple transcription start sites, absence of a TATA box, and presence of putative Sp1 binding sites.
(17) The genes for 18S rRNA and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase were representatives of constitutively expressed (i.e., "housekeeping") genes.
(18) Louise Chunn, the former editor of Good Housekeeping and InStyle, is the new editor of upmarket "thinking women's glossy" magazine Psychologies.
(19) We have size-fractionated the chromosome-sized DNA molecules of representative T. cruzi strains by pulsed field gradient (PFG) gel electrophoresis and located several housekeeping genes by Southern blotting using cDNA probes from the related trypanosome T. brucei.
(20) Physicians' care was the most favorably rated dimension, followed by admission process and housekeeping, while nursing care was the least favorably rated dimension.