housekeeping vs program

housekeeping

noun
  • Any general tasks that involve preparation. 

  • Hospitality; a liberal and hospitable table; a supply of provisions. 

  • The chores of maintaining a house as a residence, especially cleaning. 

program

noun
  • A set of structured activities. 

  • A particular mindset or method of doing things. 

  • A set of principle goals which are supported by a political party or individual candidate 

  • A leaflet listing information about a play, game or other activity. 

  • A performance of a show or other broadcast on radio or television. 

  • A software application, or a collection of software applications, designed to perform a specific task. 

verb
  • To enter a program or other instructions into (a computer or other electronic device) to instruct it to do a particular task. 

  • To develop (software) by writing program code. 

  • To schedule the programming; to determine what will be broadcast. 

  • To put together the schedule of an event. 

  • To cause to automatically behave in a particular way. 

How often have the words housekeeping and program occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )