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HOUSEKEEPER, HOME

Specialty Definition: HOUSEKEEPER, HOME

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Occupations

Performs any combination of following duties to maintain private home clean and orderly, to cook and serve meals, and to render personal services to family members: Plans meals and purchases foodstuffs and household supplies. Prepares and cooks vegetables, meats, and other foods according to employer's instructions or following own methods. Serves meals and refreshments. Washes dishes and cleans silverware. Oversees activities of children, assisting them in dressing and bathing. Cleans furnishings, floors, and windows, using vacuum cleaner, mops, broom, cloths, and cleaning solutions. Changes linens and makes beds. Washes linens and other garments by hand or machine, and mends and irons clothing, linens, and other household articles, using hand iron or electric ironer. Answers telephone and doorbell. Feeds pets. (references)
 Supervises and coordinates activities of household employees in a private residence: Informs new employees of employer's desires and gives instructions in work methods and routines. Assigns duties, such as cooking and serving meals, cleaning, washing, and ironing, adjusting work activities to accommodate family members. Orders foodstuffs and cleaning supplies. Keeps record of expenditures. May hire and discharge employees. Works in residence employing large staff. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: HOUSEKEEPER, HOME

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters ",-e-e-e-e-e-h-h-k-m-o-o-p-r-s-u"

-5 letters: housekeeper.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: HOUSEKEEPER, HOME


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 4F 55 53 45 4B 45 45 50 45 52 2C      48 4F 4D 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01001111 01010101 01010011 01000101 01001011 01000101 01000101 01010000 01000101 01010010 00101100 00100000 01001000 01001111 01001101 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#79 &#85 &#83 &#69 &#75 &#69 &#69 &#80 &#69 &#82 &#44 &#32 &#72 &#79 &#77 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 004F 0055 0053 0045 004B 0045 0045 0050 0045 0052 002C      0048 004F 004D 0045

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

424955533945393950395214242494739

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