chore

/tʃɔ:/

Thân thiện

A boy helps his father with the morning chore of feeding the chickens.

Definition

Noun: 1. A routine or minor task, especially a household duty: A small, often repetitive job that is part of daily or regular maintenance, typically seen as unpleasant or burdensome. 2. An unpleasant but necessary task: Any task or duty that is required but considered tedious or uninteresting.

Usage and Examples

• As a routine household duty:

  • One of my daily chores is taking out the trash.
  • She divided the household chores among her children.

• As an unpleasant but necessary task:

  • Filling out all this paperwork is such a chore.
  • For him, commuting to work is a daily chore.

Advanced Usage and Nuances

• "to make a chore of (something)": To turn an activity into a tedious task.
  • Don't make a chore of gardening; try to enjoy it.
• The word often carries a connotation of reluctance or burden, distinguishing it from neutral words like "task" or "job."

Variants and Related Words

• Chores (plural noun): The most common form, referring to a set of small tasks.
  • His weekend chores included mowing the lawn and washing the car.
• Choreography (noun): The art of designing dance sequences. (Note: This is a distinct word with a different origin and meaning, not a variant of "chore.")

Synonyms

• Task: A piece of work to be done.
• Duty: A moral or legal obligation.
• Errand: A short trip to accomplish a specific task, often outside the home.
• Drudgery: Hard, menial, or dull work.

Antonyms

• Leisure: Free time for enjoyment.
• Pleasure: An activity done for enjoyment.
• Recreation: Activity done for enjoyment when one is not working.

Related Phrases and Idioms

• A necessary chore: Emphasizes that a task is unavoidable.
  • Balancing the budget is a necessary chore for any manager.
• Daily/Weekly/Morning chores: Specifies the frequency of the tasks.
  • Feeding the animals is part of the farmer's morning chores.

Học thuật

Noun

1. a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
   • estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars
   • the job of repairing the engine took several hours
   • the endless task of classifying the samples
   • the farmer's morning chores

Từ đồng nghĩa

• job
• task