janitorial

[ jan-i-tawr-ee-uhl ]

adjective

1. of or relating to a janitor, a person employed in an apartment, office, school building, etc., to clean public areas, remove garbage, and do minor repairs:

   Our janitorial product supply includes a wide spectrum of cleaning products.

Word History and Origins

Origin of janitorial¹

janitor ( def ) + -ial ( def )

Example Sentences

The labor — waitressing, janitorial — was physically demanding, the wages terrible, the treatment by bosses and customers often worse.

From Los Angeles Times

An investigator for California’s Employment Development Department testified the state paid out $19,000 to Stinson, whose unemployment claim stated he lost his job as a “janitorial assistant” during the COVID-19 pandemic.

From Los Angeles Times

Coming and going during the day felt like being backstage in a theater, where a legion of deliverymen and janitorial staff making poverty wages handled the logistics that would let customers escape their own worldly concerns when it got dark.

From Slate

Two decades later, that idea has morphed into a Glendale company called ServiceTitan, which last year served some 8,000 plumbing, HVAC, janitorial and other firms with a soup-to-nuts software suite — and now plans to go public on Nasdaq under the ticker “TTAN.”

From Los Angeles Times

As days went by and dirt, dog waste and grime piled up in the Produce Hotel in Skid Row, Jermaine Staley broke into the janitorial closet.

From Los Angeles Times