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chore

American  
[chawr, chohr] / tʃɔr, tʃoʊr /

noun

  1. a small or odd job; routine task.

    Synonyms:
    stint, errand, work, duty

  2. chores, the everyday work around a house or farm.

  3. a hard or unpleasant task.

    Solving the problem was quite a chore.
chore 1 British  
/ tʃɔː /

noun

  1. a small routine task, esp a domestic one

  2. an unpleasant task

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-chore 2 British  

combining form

  1. (in botany) indicating a plant distributed by a certain means

    anemochore
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Related Words

See task.

Other Word Forms

  • -chorous combining form

Etymology

Origin of chore

First recorded in 1375–1425; late Middle English char, Old English cyrr, variant of cierr, cerr. See char 3

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