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Definition of chore in English: chorenoun tʃɔːtʃɔr 1A routine task, especially a household one. 日常零星工作(尤指家庭杂事) the early risers were up and about, doing their chores Example sentencesExamples - Mary was a woman of gentle disposition who went quietly about her daily chores.
- By the time I get up, do the usual daily chores and get everyone fed it'll be time to go to work.
- More people than ever before have someone to do their household chores for them.
- The household chores have had to be shared differently as she cannot cut hard vegetables or do the vacuuming.
- Geraldine was doing her home chores when the phone rang for her Evening Press interview.
- The family thought the young social worker had been sent to help them with household chores.
- She missed her daily chores and annoyances and the routines of a normal life.
- Meantime, while waiting for Graham to recover, I have a mountain of laundry and other household chores to do.
- But at the time, a dozen years ago, cloning a gene was not the routine chore it is today.
- Yet there are simple and safe alternatives to those everyday household cleaning chores.
- No more will they have to face the daily domestic chores most of us take for granted.
- Routine chores, that other people may take for granted, have inevitably become a problem.
- Try to schedule some of your routine chores on workdays so that your days off are more relaxing.
- She had taken the boys to school and come home to do a few minor household chores.
- Domestic helpers are usually associated with menial jobs and household chores.
- Her free time in the evenings and at the weekend was spent helping the family with household chores.
- Many months passed and the guru and his disciples peacefully went about their routine chores.
- Girls as young as four and five are expected to help with household chores and to care for their younger siblings.
- Ben helps him 24 hours a week with the shopping, cooking, cleaning and other household chores.
- These women are still spending nearly three hours on household chores every day!
Synonyms task, job, duty, errand, thing to be done, burden (chores), work, domestic work, drudgery - 1.1 A tedious but necessary task.
例行工作 he sees interviews as a chore 他视采访为例行工作。 Example sentencesExamples - Tackle winter cleanup chores and repair garden tools.
- This meant mastering the tedious chores of day-to-day living as well as making a new social life and network of friends.
- To her, it was more of a chore, a necessary task that had to be done in order to remain alive.
- This seems strange to some, but why should we not make something fun out of a necessary chore?
- Video editing is a taxing chore, which is why we choose to use it on motherboards to test performance.
- It reminds us of having to do things like install software, the most tedious of computer chores.
- Too many of them were standing around as though fielding were merely a tedious chore to be undertaken before you got your turn at bat.
- The week starts with demands from our jobs, lovers, friends and tedious chores.
- In the end, ‘Not of this World’ could have been a very good movie; instead it's just a tedious chore.
- And training - which is essential to boost your power, stamina and chin - becomes a real chore.
- For me, it's so much more of a chore or a necessity than a pleasure.
- As a woman I find its application the most tedious chore and will go to any lengths to avoid the process.
- The routine is a chore, but the result is spectacular when combined with Cawley's fashion parade of nine costumes.
OriginMid 18th century (originally dialect and US): variant of obsolete char or chare (see charwoman). charwoman from late 16th century: The first element of this word is from obsolete char or chare meaning ‘a turn of work, an odd job, chore’. Chore (mid 18th century) is a variant.
Rhymesabhor, adore, afore, anymore, ashore, awe, bandore, Bangalore, before, boar, Boer, bore, caw, claw, cocksure, comprador, cor, core, corps, craw, Delors, deplore, door, draw, drawer, evermore, explore, flaw, floor, for, forbore, fore, foresaw, forevermore, forswore, four, fourscore, furthermore, Gábor, galore, gnaw, gore, grantor, guarantor, guffaw, hard-core, Haugh, haw, hoar, ignore, implore, Indore, interwar, jaw, Johor, Lahore, law, lessor, lor, lore, macaw, man-o'-war, maw, mirador, mor, more, mortgagor, Mysore, nevermore, nor, oar, obligor, offshore, onshore, open-jaw, or, ore, outdoor, outwore, paw, poor, pore, pour, rapport, raw, roar, saw, scaur, score, senhor, señor, shaw, ship-to-shore, shop-floor, shore, signor, Singapore, snore, soar, softcore, sore, spore, store, straw, swore, Tagore, tau, taw, thaw, Thor, threescore, tor, tore, torr, trapdoor, tug-of-war, two-by-four, underfloor, underscore, war, warrantor, Waugh, whore, withdraw, wore, yaw, yore, your Definition of chore in US English: chorenountʃɔrCHôr 1A routine task, especially a household one. 日常零星工作(尤指家庭杂事) the early risers were up and about, doing their chores Example sentencesExamples - Girls as young as four and five are expected to help with household chores and to care for their younger siblings.
- By the time I get up, do the usual daily chores and get everyone fed it'll be time to go to work.
- The family thought the young social worker had been sent to help them with household chores.
- Meantime, while waiting for Graham to recover, I have a mountain of laundry and other household chores to do.
- More people than ever before have someone to do their household chores for them.
- She had taken the boys to school and come home to do a few minor household chores.
- Yet there are simple and safe alternatives to those everyday household cleaning chores.
- Mary was a woman of gentle disposition who went quietly about her daily chores.
- These women are still spending nearly three hours on household chores every day!
- Geraldine was doing her home chores when the phone rang for her Evening Press interview.
- Domestic helpers are usually associated with menial jobs and household chores.
- Routine chores, that other people may take for granted, have inevitably become a problem.
- The household chores have had to be shared differently as she cannot cut hard vegetables or do the vacuuming.
- Ben helps him 24 hours a week with the shopping, cooking, cleaning and other household chores.
- Many months passed and the guru and his disciples peacefully went about their routine chores.
- No more will they have to face the daily domestic chores most of us take for granted.
- She missed her daily chores and annoyances and the routines of a normal life.
- Try to schedule some of your routine chores on workdays so that your days off are more relaxing.
- But at the time, a dozen years ago, cloning a gene was not the routine chore it is today.
- Her free time in the evenings and at the weekend was spent helping the family with household chores.
Synonyms task, job, duty, errand, thing to be done, burden - 1.1 An unpleasant but necessary task.
例行工作 he sees interviews as a chore 他视采访为例行工作。 Example sentencesExamples - To her, it was more of a chore, a necessary task that had to be done in order to remain alive.
- For me, it's so much more of a chore or a necessity than a pleasure.
- And training - which is essential to boost your power, stamina and chin - becomes a real chore.
- Tackle winter cleanup chores and repair garden tools.
- The week starts with demands from our jobs, lovers, friends and tedious chores.
- In the end, ‘Not of this World’ could have been a very good movie; instead it's just a tedious chore.
- It reminds us of having to do things like install software, the most tedious of computer chores.
- The routine is a chore, but the result is spectacular when combined with Cawley's fashion parade of nine costumes.
- This seems strange to some, but why should we not make something fun out of a necessary chore?
- Video editing is a taxing chore, which is why we choose to use it on motherboards to test performance.
- As a woman I find its application the most tedious chore and will go to any lengths to avoid the process.
- This meant mastering the tedious chores of day-to-day living as well as making a new social life and network of friends.
- Too many of them were standing around as though fielding were merely a tedious chore to be undertaken before you got your turn at bat.
OriginMid 18th century (originally dialect and US): variant of obsolete char or chare (see charwoman). |