chore
chore
Definition
chore (c̸hôr)
noun
- a small routine task, as of a housekeeper or farmer: often used in pl.
- a hard or unpleasant task
Etymology: ME cher, cherre: see chare
chore
Synonyms
chore
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- perform: From the working camps, parties went out to perform various chores, either locally or in small up-river camps.
- do: Or even the time they spend doing chores you used to do?
- become: My gait became unstable; my arms became weak; I dropped things; doing my hair became a chore.
- handle: Guy Sheppard handled design chores for the first three episodes of this season.
- clean: Everybody has a cleaning chore - brass, woodwork, windows, decks - we had a lot of fun with this.
- finish: They might offer you the incentive to finish early once a chore is out of the way.
Preposition: around
- house: I think about my mother doing the daily chores around the house.
Adjective modifier
- menial: George had to fight his way up, washing dishes, doing the most menial legal chores.
- tedious: Has Hotpoint merely meant we now have more time to spend doing other tedious chores?
- mundane: This gets you off the hook for all the mundane chores; let someone else take care of them.
- time-consuming: REGULAR internet users will save a year of their lives by doing the most time-consuming chores online, a new report claims.
- domestic: I also don't like helping with domestic chores.
- daily: Spam Too many of us suffer the daily chore of deleting e-mails we don't want to receive.
Modifies a noun
- chart: Do you think Ben Cartwright ever needed a chore chart?
Noun used with modifier
- household: Household chores: Consider not mowing the lawn or starting the DIY at the crack of dawn.
- consuming: If kept in a solid floored aviary then cleaning is a constant and time consuming chore.
- gardening: For you who aren't particularly appreciative of the hot hot, then do your gardening chores early in the morning.
- camp: Camp duties include cleaning and camp chores as well as data input and personal projects.
- programming: Also useful here is a section on COM interoperability with.NET ( as this is likely to be a common programming chore ).
- kitchen: Wardens and Volunteers share all cooking and kitchen chores.
Browse dictionary entries near chore
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