task(WORK)

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Work, working and the workplace
act as something
all work and no play (makes Jack a dull boy)idiom
assignment
bandh
be at workidiom
grind
hoop
housekeeping
in the line of dutyidiom
induction
industry
job
join dutyidiom
moonlight
slave
slog
slouch
spadework
subtask
sweat

chore | American Dictionary

chore
noun[ C ]
us/tʃɔr, tʃoʊr/
a job or piece of work that needs to be done regularly:
By the time he’d finished all the household chores it was mid-afternoon.
A chore is also something that is difficult and unpleasant:
It was a real chore trying to give our dog a bath.

Examples of chore

chore
His work is a chore to be suffered and is hard to come to terms with.
For giving help, few seniors assisted someone else during baby-sitting (12.4%), but the majority helped with household chores (74.5%).
The extra help of ten simply meant that they were f reed up to tend to other chores and responsibilities.
Alternatively, if the amount of work is thought excessive, the farmer will see it as a chore that he is obliged to suffer!
Older men have been more likely than women to give money and housing, while older women are significantly more likely to help with household chores.
Thus, men did not spend any more time on household chores when their wives were employed than they did when their wives were full-time homemakers.
In addition, 746 hours were devoted to household and other chores, which made the total number of working hours 3,394 a year.
It provides an outline of the daily round of chores and their timing.
The percentage providing help with money, chores, and grandchild care are shown first.
Older children can contribute to care provision or to domestic chores of the household to relieve the carer.
She and her daughter got up at six every day and shared most of the domestic chores.
As it is, the obscurity of the primary sources fosters a relentless chore of explication, undertaken for its own sake.
Other household chores are handled by the butler, bearer or boy; the second-boy, house-boy, verandah-boy, room-boy, room-service-boy, and dressing-boy (where boy means 'male servant').
Nevertheless, some users claimed that their befrienders undertook household chores for them.
Some of the time working at home may also be used to carry out normal household chores.
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