custodial services
Cleaning and upkeep
Custodial services refers to cleaning and maintenance work, typically in commercial or institutional settings like schools, offices, and hospitals.
The term covers janitorial duties—mopping, vacuuming, trash removal, restroom sanitation—and sometimes light building maintenance.
The university outsourced its custodial services to cut costs.
The phrase is workplace jargon, more formal than "cleaning" and used in contracts and job postings.
- janitorialOf maintenance workers
- cleaning crewWorkers who maintain tidiness
- vacuumingRemoving dirt by suction
- disinfectingKilling bacteria and viruses
- trashDiscarded worthless material
floor · window washing · dust · mopping · floor buffer · sanitizing · recycling · sweep · broom · school janitor · polishing · bin · bucket · mop · hazardous waste disposal · cart · night shift · break room
- fiduciarytrust management, trust funds, living trusts, family trusts, charitable trusts
- facilitiesfactory, facilities, gym, plant, gyms
- corporate bankingcorporate finance, corporate loans, debt financing, cash management, credit lines
custodial servicesconstruction services
Work to erect structures
building construction · new construction · construction · demolition · remodeling
custodial servicesneglect
Failure to provide care
abandonment · dereliction · disrepair · disregard · deterioration