"cleaning lady" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: cleaning ladies [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} cleaning lady (plural cleaning ladies)
  1. a woman who cleans. Synonyms: cleaneress, cleaning woman, charlady, charwoman, cleaning-lady [attributive] Translations (Translations): huishoudster [feminine] (Dutch), kuisvrouw [feminine] (Dutch), siivoojanainen (Finnish), siivoojatar (Finnish), siivooja (Finnish), femme de ménage [feminine] (French), femme d’ouvrage [feminine] (French), Putzfrau (German), מנקה (menaká) [feminine] (Hebrew), takarítónő (Hungarian), 掃除婦 (sōjifu) (Japanese), чистачка (čistačka) [feminine] (Macedonian), sprzątaczka [feminine] (Polish), spremačica (Serbo-Croatian), señora de la limpieza (Spanish), städerska [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-cleaning_lady-en-noun-F4bIdgEP Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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