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Janitor vs Housecleaner - What's the difference?

janitor | housecleaner |

As nouns the difference between janitor and housecleaner

is that janitor is (chiefly|us) someone who looks after the maintenance and cleaning of a public building while housecleaner is someone employed to clean a house.

janitor

English

(wikipedia janitor)

Noun

  • (en noun) (female:'' janitress''' or '''janitrix (''rare ))
  • (chiefly, US) someone who looks after the maintenance and cleaning of a public building.
  • a doorman

    • Synonyms

    * maintenance person * (mostly British ) caretaker * cleaner * (British) concierge * custodian * (One who cleans and maintains a garden) groundskeeper * curator * porter

    housecleaner

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone employed to clean a house.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 15, author=Dan Bilefsky, title=In Romania, Children Left Behind Suffer the Strains of Migration, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Diligent Romanians became the strawberry pickers, construction workers and housecleaners of choice, doing jobs that workers in richer neighboring countries no longer wanted.}}

    Related terms

    *clean house *houseclean