chorechore /tʃɔː $ tʃɔːr/ ●○○ noun [countable] 
everyday chores like shopping and housework We share the domestic chores.2something you have to do that is very boring and unpleasant: I find driving a real chore.COLLOCATIONSadjectivesa household chore (=a chore in the home)· household chores such as washing and ironing clothesa daily/everyday chore· When you're working it can be hard to find time for the daily chores.a domestic chore (=a chore such as cleaning or putting things away)· Everyone in the flat shared the cooking and domestic chores.an administrative chore (=a chore such as writing letters or paying bills)· filling in forms and other administrative choresroutine chores (=done regularly)· Who does most of the routine chores in your house?mundane chores (=ordinary and uninteresting)· the mundane chores of everyday lifeverbsdo the chores· I stayed at home and did the chores.perform/carry out a chore formal (=do a chore)· It's good for kids to learn how to perform household chores.go about your chores (=do your chores)· I got up and went about my chores, feeding the cats and making tea.help with the chores· All their children help with the chores.
WORD ORIGINchore
Origin:
1700-1800 chare; ➔ CHARWOMANEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- household chores
- Husbands should be prepared to do their share of the household chores.
- Michael, come on. Do your chores, bud.
- Somehow he persuaded his sister to do his chores for him.
- Washing the kitchen floor was a daily chore, and it was the one I hated most.
- When I got old enough I started to have chores around the house.
- When we opened the store, our ambition was to make shopping less of a chore, more of a pleasure.
- Writing Christmas cards can be such a chore.
- Even then, you might still finish each day feeling guilty about the many chores which inevitably remain undone.
- Finding all the free-flowing wells is a chore, Kerr said.
- However, even this chore was quickly organised to accommodate regular visits to his beloved Scourie.
- It seemed most residents figured out how to perform their morning chores, take their kids to school and get to work.
- One morning I saw Mrs Goreng's chauffeur grinning as he went about his chore of servicing the jeep.
- Some of the wives and the smaller children were doing smaller chores in the fish house.
- The preparation of a claim should not be the chore that it so often becomes.
- Their aim: to take some of the pain and the expense out of the annual chore of filing a tax return.
Longman Language Activatora piece of work that you have to do
a specific piece of work that you have to do, often one that you are not paid for: · Repairing the roof -- that's going to be the biggest job.· Cleaning the car's one of my least favorite jobs.do a job: · Well, I must go now. I've lots of jobs to do around the house.do a good/nice/beautiful etc job (=do a job well): · I always take my car to York Street garage. They're expensive, but they do a good job.· Irene did a nice job on those clothes didn't she?get on with a job (=continue doing a job): · He didn't complain or criticize, he just got on with the job.odd jobs (=jobs of different kinds that are not regular): · He does odd jobs for people in his spare time.the job in/at hand (=the job you have to do at the moment): · Let's just concentrate on the job in hand, shall we?· She was upset, and found it difficult to keep her mind on the job at hand.
formal a piece of work that you have to do - use this especially about a difficult or unpleasant job, or about a specific part of your work: · One of the first tasks Eva set herself was learning the local language.impossible/difficult/arduous etc task: · The UN Peacekeeping Force faces an almost impossible task.· We knew what had to be done, but it wasn't an easy task.task of: · Recovery crews continued the grim task of retrieving bodies from the wreckage. face/begin/continue a task: · By 2001, we had begun the task of collecting the materials and information needed for the study.· This is one of the most difficult and complex tasks we face.perform a task/carry out a task: · Most of the workers did not have the skills required to perform the most basic tasks.· The massacre was never fully investigated because the police were incapable of carrying out the task.thankless task (=one that no one wants to do because they will get no satisfaction from it): · Who on earth would volunteer for such a thankless task?
a job that you have to do, either for your work or for yourself, especially things that you have to leave your office or house to do: · I'll pick the laundry up on Saturday -- I have some shopping to do anyway.· I've got some work to do this evening.
something that you have to do, especially something that involves writing or drawing and a lot of thinking: do/hand in/submit a piece of work: · Do you actually fail the year if you don't hand in a piece of work?· I've got a merit for every piece of work I've done.good/excellent etc piece of work: · I think this is a very fine piece of work and it deserves a first class mark.· Look at that piece of work and ask yourself the question -- 'Is this the best I can do?'
a piece of work that someone gives you to do, as part of your job or as part of your studies: · Bart's first assignment for the newspaper was to report on the French elections.· This is a really tough assignment, and I believe you're the only person who can handle it.finish/complete an assignment: · She stayed late to complete a class assignment.history/homework/school/military etc assignment: · Robin spent many lunch hours poring over her math assignments.· I eventually got a teaching assignment at Xibei.one-year/two week etc assignment: · 'I figure this will either make or break us,' Cheyne said of the 1-year assignment to get the camp up and running.
an unpleasant or boring job, especially one that you have to do regularly in your home: · Washing the kitchen floor was a daily chore, and it was the one I hated most.· When we opened the store, our ambition was to make shopping less of a chore, more of a pleasure.· When I got old enough I started to have chores around the house.do the/your chores (=do all the cleaning etc that needs doing in a home): · Michael, come on. Do your chores, bud.household chores (=chores in the home, such as cleaning or cooking): · Husbands should be prepared to do their share of the household chores.
a small job that you need to do or that someone has asked you to do, such as buying something, posting something, taking somebody to a place etc: do/run an errand (for somebody): · Before you disappear, I want you to do an errand for me.· Peter cleaned equipment, ran errands, answered the phone -- it was all routine.· I used to pick up her dry cleaning and run errands for her.
something that you have a responsibility to do, especially as a regular part of your job: · For the most part, there was not much to do, other than cleanup duty around the prison camp.· Part of a park ranger's official duties is to ensure public safety.· clerical and secretarial dutieshave a duty to do something formal: · Teachers have a duty to ensure that students are not injured whilst they are in their care.perform a duty: · And now I have a very pleasant duty to perform. I am going to present the prizes to the winning competitors.tour of duty (=a period of time that a soldier or other member of the armed forces spends in a particular place): · He recently completed a tour of duty in Seoul as assistant to the US ambassador there.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYadjectives Cooking every day is a thankless task.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
1a small job that you have to do regularly, especially work that you do to keep a house clean: (=a chore in the home)· household chores such as washing and ironing clothes
· When you're working it can be hard to find time for the daily chores.
(=a chore such as cleaning or putting things away)· Everyone in the flat shared the cooking and domestic chores.
(=a chore such as writing letters or paying bills)· filling in forms and other administrative chores
(=done regularly)· Who does most of the routine chores in your house?
(=ordinary and uninteresting)· the mundane chores of everyday life
verbs· I stayed at home and did the chores.
formal (=do a chore)· It's good for kids to learn how to perform household chores.
(=do your chores)· I got up and went about my chores, feeding the cats and making tea.
· All their children help with the chores.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES (=boring tasks around the home)· Many people find domestic chores very tedious.
Cooking every day is a thankless task.· For the daily chores fell mainly on the shoulders of the women: shopping, running around to find particular things.· It seemed a pity to disturb them as we went about our daily chores.· Whether building a cozy fire, packing a picnic or doing daily chores, everything was too much trouble.
· An outline of some of the domestic chores undertaken by Mr and Mrs McGill will help to answer this question.· Not having a housekeeper meant most of the domestic chores became mine.· It is not unusual for women to work a 40-hour week, followed by a further 40-hour week of domestic chores.· I come after finishing the domestic chores at home which is not far off.· I am bespoke in the evening, but the daytime is free, once I've done my domestic chores.· The students shared the cooking and domestic chores.
NOUN· Almost all household chores and the raising of children is left up to the wife.· It is a day for household chores, for cleaning and scrubbing, or to catch up with their religious studies.· That's the important thing. Household chores will present a bit of a problem, of course, but the children matter most.· Juggling work and household chores, I felt ennui seeping into all phases of my life.· It made a welcome change from household chores and got her into contact with customers which provided a little gossip.· What should parents do to help their children complete household chores?· When household chores get left, you feel guilty you haven't done them because you consider it's your job.· Consider a nine-year-old who has never been able to complete household chores consistently.
VERB· It then becomes rather a chore having to re-apply those etch-resist transfers all over again.· With a back, all life becomes a chore.· If they become a chore, they defeat the purpose of helping the child to want to interact with you.
· Women raised the kids and did Bthe household chores.· The man will more often take out the garbage, wash the dishes, and do other chores around the house.· Huckle and Lowly must do chores, in the form of reading, letter recognition and alphabet problems.· The boy had refused to do chores.· They must do the chores of life, must gain in strength and wisdom to cope with the hostile time of manhood.· Those who stay have to take classes, do chores, and save 70 percent of their welfare checks.· Sometimes Deborah had to shout at Scott to get him to do his extra chores.· Another organized a Chore Service that paid neighborhood kids to do chores for the elderly.
· All at once he was eager to finish his chores, in order to be ready for what he had to do.· I come after finishing the domestic chores at home which is not far off.
· Sometimes she would give him money on the sly and he would help her with chores.· First to Mark, who had generously stayed on to help with the final chores.
· It seemed most residents figured out how to perform their morning chores, take their kids to school and get to work.· Its members take on the characteristics of mechanical cogs, performing their prescribed chores until they are worn out and replaced.
everyday chores like shopping and housework We share the domestic chores.2something you have to do that is very boring and unpleasant: I find driving a real chore.COLLOCATIONSadjectivesa household chore (=a chore in the home)· household chores such as washing and ironing clothesa daily/everyday chore· When you're working it can be hard to find time for the daily chores.a domestic chore (=a chore such as cleaning or putting things away)· Everyone in the flat shared the cooking and domestic chores.an administrative chore (=a chore such as writing letters or paying bills)· filling in forms and other administrative choresroutine chores (=done regularly)· Who does most of the routine chores in your house?mundane chores (=ordinary and uninteresting)· the mundane chores of everyday lifeverbsdo the chores· I stayed at home and did the chores.perform/carry out a chore formal (=do a chore)· It's good for kids to learn how to perform household chores.go about your chores (=do your chores)· I got up and went about my chores, feeding the cats and making tea.help with the chores· All their children help with the chores.