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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 char3.]

chore
Noun
1. a small routine task
2. an unpleasant task [Old English cerr a turn of work]
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
Translations
Spanish chore [tʃɔːʳ] nfaena, tarea (= routine task); trabajo rutinario
French chore [tʃɔːʳ] ntravail m de routine;
household chores → travaux mpl du ménage

German chore [tʃɔːʳ] nHausarbeit f;
(routine task) → lästige Routinearbeit f;
household chores → Hausarbeit

Italian chore [tʃɔːʳ] nfaccenda;
household chores → faccende fpl domestiche

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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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