How to say "housekeeping" in Japanese

• 家政かせいCommon
  nounHousekeeping as the management and economy of a household — running a home as a whole rather than doing chores. It has a formal, technical flavor, the term behind 'home economics'.
  梨奈りなは家政かせい部ぶで、主おもに洋裁ようさいをやっている。↗

  Rina is in the home economics club. Her main activity is dressmaking.
• ハウスキーピング
  nounThe loanword, used much as in English. In practice it points to cleaning: hotel housekeeping departments, and paid housekeeping services that send staff to clean homes.
• 家事代行かじだいこう
  nounHousekeeping in the paid-service sense: a company sends someone to do the housework in your place. This is the word for hiring domestic help through a service.
• 所帯持ちしょたいもち
  nounSeldom the word you want for housekeeping: it really means a married person, someone who has and runs a household of their own. Think 'householder', not chores.
• 主婦業しゅふぎょう
  nounHousekeeping as the housewife's occupation: running a home treated as a job in itself. It views housework from the standpoint of a full-time homemaker rather than naming individual chores.

For housekeeping as a paid service use 家事代行 or the loanword 「ハウスキーピング」; 家政 is formal household management; 主婦業 frames it as the housewife's job; 「所帯持ち」 usually means a married person, not the chores.

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• 家政かせいhousehold economy
• ハウスキーピングhousekeeping
• 家事代行かじだいこうhousekeeping (service)
• 所帯持ちしょたいもちmarried man or woman
• 主婦業しゅふぎょうhomekeeping
• 身上持ちしんしょうもちhousekeeping
• 身上しんしょうlife circumstances