<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>The maintenance of a house or domestic establishment.</li><li>The management of household affairs.</li><li>The management, care, and servicing of property and equipment of an industrial or commercial building or organization.</li><li>The ongoing routine, procedures, operations, and management of a commercial enterprise, government, organization, or the like.</li><li>In computers, system tasks, as initialization and managing peripheral devices, that must be done to permit a computer program to execute properly but that do not directly contribute to program output.</li></ul>