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roomkeeper en · NOUN

Etymology

From room + keeper.

Meanings

1. A person employed by a hotel or similar establishment to clean, maintain and restock the rooms.
   • However, if a one-half hour meeting means one less room accomplished per roomkeeper, the housekeeper is challenged to cover this time somehow. 1997, The Rooms Chronicle, volumes 5-9, page 70:
   • While the vast majority of guests are polite, pleasant, and appreciative of the importance of the roomkeeper's work, there are others, on occasion, who are silly, rude, overbearing, intoxicated, menacing, or annoying. 1974, Bruce H. Axler, Room Care for Hotels and Motels, page 55:

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