chore
/tʃɔː
/noun
1A routine task, especially a household one: her illness made even daily chores like shopping difficult...
- Girls as young as four and five are expected to help with household chores and to care for their younger siblings.
- Geraldine was doing her home chores when the phone rang for her Evening Press interview.
- By the time I get up, do the usual daily chores and get everyone fed it'll be time to go to work.
Synonyms
task, job, duty, errand, thing to be done, burden;
(chores) work, domestic work, drudgery
1.1A tedious but necessary task: he sees interviews as a chore...
- 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.
- For me, it's so much more of a chore or a necessity than a pleasure.
- This seems strange to some, but why should we not make something fun out of a necessary chore?
Origin
Mid 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.