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chore

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chore  (chôr, chr)
n.
1. A routine or minor duty or task. See Synonyms at task.
2. chores Daily or routine domestic tasks, especially a farmer's routine morning and evening tasks, such as feeding livestock.
3. An unpleasant or burdensome task.

[Variant of char.]

chore [tʃɔː]
n
1. a small routine task, esp a domestic one
2. an unpleasant task
[variant of Middle English chare; related to char3]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.chorechore - a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee; "estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars"; "the job of repairing the engine took several hours"; "the endless task of classifying the samples"; "the farmer's morning chores"
duty - work that you are obliged to perform for moral or legal reasons; "the duties of the job"
ball-breaker, ball-buster - a job or situation that is demanding and arduous and punishing; "Vietnam was a ball-breaker"
stint - an individual's prescribed share of work; "her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her"
scut work, shitwork - trivial, unrewarding, tedious, dirty, and disagreeable chores; "the hospital hired him to do scut work"

chore
noun task, job, duty, burden, hassle (informal), fag (informal), errand, no picnic I find gardening a real chore.
Translations
chore [tʃɔːʳ] Nfaena f, tarea f (pej) → tarea f rutinaria
to do the (household) choreshacer los quehaceres domésticos

chore [ˈtʃɔːr] n
(= boring task) → corvée f
(= housework) the chores → les tâches fpl ménagères household chores

chore
nlästige Pflicht; chores plHausarbeit f; to do the choresden Haushalt machen, die Hausarbeit erledigen

chore [tʃɔːʳ] nfaccenda (pej) → rottura
household chores → faccende fpl (domestiche)
to do the chores → sbrigare or fare le faccende
chore [tʃɔːʳ] nfaccenda (pej) → rottura
household chores → faccende fpl (domestiche)
to do the chores → sbrigare or fare le faccende

chore
n chore [tʃoː]
a piece of housework or other hard or dull job. huiswerk عَمَلٌ بَيْتي домашно задължение práce v domácnosti, posluhování kedelig pligt; ubehagelig opgave die Hausarbeit αγγαρεία quehacer, tarea tüütu töö کار ناخوشایند؛ کار پر زحمت askare, uurastus corvée עֲבוֹדוֹת בָּית काम, काम-काज kućni posao mindennapi házimunka tugas verk, leiðindastarf lavoro domestico 雑用 허드렛일 namų ruoša, nemalonus darbas sīki mājas darbi; apnicīgs darbs kerja harian karwei husarbeid, rutinearbeid robota frete treburi în gospodărie тяжёлый (домашний) труд práca hišno opravilo kućna obaveza arbete, syssla, grovgöra งานที่น่าเบื่อ günlük ev işi 家事,雜務 домашня робота گھریلو کام یا کوئی اور سخت کام việc vặt


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I don' know about the privilege part; it'll be considerable of a chore, I guess.
He had already done the evening chores and had seen Hal, dressed and ready for a roistering night in town, come out of the farmhouse and go into the road.
I used to wonder, when they came in tired from the fields, their feet numb and their hands cracked and sore, how they could do all the chores so conscientiously: feed and water and bed the horses, milk the cows, and look after the pigs.
 
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