Housekeeping is the staff who clean and prepare the rooms. Call housekeeping, the housekeeping trolley, housekeeping staff.
In a hotel it is the largest department and the hardest physically — a room attendant may turn round more than a dozen rooms in a shift. The word also means the running of a household, and in business it means routine tidying-up tasks.
1nounhousekeepingThe staff who clean and prepare hotel rooms.
“Please call housekeeping if you need extra towels in your room.”
housekeeping is a department, or a task.
House plus keeping. The hotel sense grew from the older one of running a household.
From house + keeping.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA