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chore

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Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

choren. [The same word as char work done by the day.].
     A small job; in the pl., the regular or daily light work of a household or farm, either within or without doors.  [1913 Webster]
chorev. i. 
     To do chores.  [1913 Webster]
choren. 
     A choir or chorus.  B. Jonson.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

chore, n. a tedious or routine task, esp. domestic.

Etymology
orig. dial. & US form of CHAR(2)

THESAURUS

chore

Augean task, Herculean task, administer to, assignment, attend, attend on, backbreaker, ballbuster, bitch, busywork, care for, char, chare, charge, commission, dance attendance upon, dead lift, devoir, do chars, do for, do service to, do the chores, drudge, duty, effort, errand, exercise, fish to fry, handful, hard job, hard pull, heavy sledding, help, homework, job, job of work, labor, lackey, large order, look after, maid, make-work, man-sized job, matters in hand, minister to, mission, odd job, pander to, piece of work, project, rough go, serve, service, stint, take care of, tall order, task, tend, things to do, tough job, tough proposition, trial, tribulation, turn a hand, uphill work, upon, valet, wait, wait on, work, work for

ROGET THESAURUS

chore

Business

N business, occupation, employment, pursuit, what one is doing, what one is about, affair, concern, matter, case, matter in hand, irons in the fire, thing to do, agendum, task, work, job, chore, errand, commission, mission, charge, care, duty, part, role, cue, province, function, lookout, department, capacity, sphere, orb, field, line, walk, walk of life, beat, round, routine, race, career, office, place, post, chargeship, incumbency, living, situation, berth, employ, service, engagement, undertaking, vocation, calling, profession, cloth, faculty, industry, art, industrial arts, craft, mystery, handicraft, trade, exercise, work, avocation, press of business, businesslike, workaday, professional, official, functional, busy, on hand, in hand, in one's hands, afoot, on foot, on the anvil, going on, acting, in the course of business, all in one's day's work, professionally Adj, a business with an income at its heels, amoto quaeramus seria ludo, par negotiis neque supra.

Servant

VB serve, wait upon, attend upon, dance attendance upon, pin oneself upon, squire, tend, hang on the sleeve of, chore.


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