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Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th
chore
chore [chore chores] BrE [tʃɔː(r)] NAmE [tʃɔːr] noun 1. a task that you do regularly •doing the household/domestic chores 2. an unpleasant or boring task •Shopping's a real chore for me. Word Origin: mid 18th cent. (originally dialect and US): variant of obsolete char or chare ‘a turn of work, an odd job, chore’. Synonyms: task duties • mission • job • chore These are all words for a piece of work that sb has to do. task • a piece of work that sb has to do, especially a difficult or unpleasant one: ▪ Our first task will be to set up a communications system. duties • tasks that are part of your job: ▪ Your duties will include setting up a new computer system. mission • an important official job that a person or group of people is given to do, especially when they are sent to another country: ▪ They undertook a ▪ fact-finding mission ▪ in the region. job • a piece of work that sb has to do: ▪ I've got various jobs around the house to do. task or job? A task may be more difficult than a job and require you to think carefully about how you are going to do it. A job may be sth small that is one of several jobs that you have to do, especially in the home; or a job can be sth that takes a long time and is boring and/or needs a lot of patience. chore • a task that you have to do regularly, especially one that you do in the home and find unpleasant or boring: ▪ household chores the task/mission/job/chore of (doing) sth (a) daily/day-to-day task/duties/job/chore (a) routine task/duties/mission/job/chore (a/an) easy/difficult task/mission/job (a) household/domestic task/duties/job/chore to do a task/a job/the chores to finish a task/a mission/a job/the chores to give sb a task/their duties/a mission/a job/a chore Example Bank: •She let her husband manage the money while she handled other household chores. •I find shopping a real chore. •Of all the household chores, I hate ironing most. •She says she'll be around once she's finished her chores. •Working women still do about 70% of domestic chores.
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