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chore Definition

chore (c̸hôr)

noun

  1. a small routine task, as of a housekeeper or farmer: often used in pl.
  2. a hard or unpleasant task

Etymology: ME cher, cherre: see chare

chore Synonyms

chore

n.

task, routine, errand, burden; see burden 2, duty 2, job 2. See syn. study at job.

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.