English Dictionary

maid-of-all-work

名詞

広義 ユーモラス文体

A female servant employed to do general housework. / (by extension, humorous) Any person who does a wide range of jobs in a supportive role; a thing that serves a wide range of purposes.

日本語の意味

家事全般の仕事を行うために雇われた女性の召使い / （拡張的、ユーモラスな意味で）幅広い範囲の補助的な仕事をこなす人、または多目的に利用できる存在

The family depended on their maid-of-all-work to prepare meals, mend clothes, and maintain the cleanliness of the house.

その家族は、食事の用意や衣類の繕い、家の清掃など家事全般を担当する家政婦に頼っていた。

意味（1）

A female servant employed to do general housework.

Now this honest little fellow being a bachelor, keeps but one servant, which he calls a maid of all work. When he gets drunk, which doth not happen above seven times a week, he is never so happy as when he is expatiating on the virtues of this virgin of his, especially her sobriety.

意味（2）

(by extension, humorous) Any person who does a wide range of jobs in a supportive role; a thing that serves a wide range of purposes.

These colossal changes necessitate an attempt to adapt the constitution of 1789 to an entirely different kind of civilization from the one for which it was planned. The only significant change made to meet this new civilization is the great American maid-of-all-work, the Inter-State Commerce Commission.

maids-of-all-work （ plural ）