1. a woman employed to clean floors and other surfaces by scrubbing
Usage: somewhat dated

Examples

• The scrubwoman arrived early each morning to clean the office building.
• She worked as a scrubwoman at the hospital for twenty years.
• The scrubwoman’s hands were rough from years of hard work.
• They hired a scrubwoman to maintain the factory floors.
• The elderly scrubwoman took pride in keeping the school spotless.
• Before modern cleaning equipment, every large building employed several scrubwomen.