(n.) A small job; in the pl., the regular or daily light work of a household or farm, either within or without doors.
(v. i.) To do chores.
(n.) A choir or chorus.
Example Sentences:
(1) Parties are a tedious chore, while sponsorships are pretty tiresome too: can you remember the key messaging about that motor oil you agreed to plug to the nearest reporter?
(2) A bout three in every 10 people in Britain think social workers help with household chores like cooking and cleaning, with personal care like washing and dressing, and with childcare.
(3) You can't put off any longer the chore of correcting the stack of student papers.
(4) The findings indicate excessive uses of the time and energy budget on walking trips to accomplish basic household necessities in which domestic chores consume by far the largest portion of this budget with the highest burden falling on the female members of the household.
(5) Women often work in exploitative conditions and shoulder disproportionate unpaid care responsibilities (such as child rearing, domestic chores, and caring for the sick and elderly).
(6) Time at home, alone, without chores, is still often felt as shirking responsibility.
(7) The husband will tend to all domestic chores while the wife works and vice versa.
(8) When the daycare finished, she settled into simply helping her mother with chores, focusing on raising her daughter and having late-night taco-making sessions with Theresa.
(9) Daily use involved repetitive chores and contact with glutaraldehyde.
(10) Considerable, traditional inequity in the distribution of child-care tasks and chore responsibility was noted, but women were generally satisfied with their husbands' home involvement.
(11) A working woman may face difficulties in attempting to fulfill the demands of both worlds, at home and outside, while a housewife may feel tired and irritated with her household chores and financial dependence.
(12) Residents must be relieved of time-consuming, nonmedical chores and internal medicine training must be redefined to provide experiences which are important to gain competence.
(13) Had the Mayans been skilled in predicting the future, they might have foreseen that a week already chock-full with jobs undone, frantic present buying and horrific office parties was hardly the best time to trouble people with the bothersome chore of preparing for the apocalypse.
(14) Our results indicate that patients with RA experience more losses than controls in every domain of human activity and that patients with OA experience more losses in the performance of household chores, shopping and errands, and leisure activities.
(15) Instead, it began when my mother dreamed of owning a car to ease her household chores.
(16) This indicated to me that over several years, consultants at this hospital feel these summaries are a chore, and the DH directive was a waste of paper.
(17) The dishwasher Since the middle of the 19th century men and women have been devising machines to ease the endless household chores of washing clothes and dishes.
(18) It's a rare interlude of childish exuberance for girls whose young lives are dominated by the twice daily walk to the well and home, carrying heavy water cans, and other domestic chores.
(19) Similarly, in the village of Sarkisla, in the province of Siva in central Turkey, children are responsible for the care of animals and other chores, and have no problems in growing up.
(20) Until now he has been manipulating the rival candidates but now he needs to ensure that, if he steps aside from the day-to-day presidential chores, he and his family will be safe.
Housework
Definition:
(n.) The work belonging to housekeeping; especially, kitchen work, sweeping, scrubbing, bed making, and the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) The subjects responded to a mail survey that defined before surgery and after recovery functioning in relation to 22 activities of daily living representing personal care, housework-yard work, and recreation-social activities.
(2) Is it true that some went mad but at least some housework got done?
(3) In Disney's hands, it became a story about a nice girl who likes singing and housework.
(4) Mothers' postpartum mental health is related to both the emotional support and practical help (eg, housework and child care activities) provided by the husband and others.
(5) The purpose of the study was to develop and evaluate a housework-based method of selecting, from among adults with acquired brain damage, those who would benefit from housework-based training; and of assessing the effects of such training.
(6) The patients had a more positive view of their abilities to cope with housework, self-care, and managing money than their relatives.
(7) Patients received more help with activities like shopping, laundry and housework than personal activities such as bathing, using the toilet and dressing.
(8) The variables with a significant coefficient of association with early termination of breast feeding were maternal education, past experience with breast feeding, help of a maid, help with housework provided by a relative, breast feeding orientation during prenatal care and encouragement from the husband.
(9) Results show that traditional definitions of physical activity and work based on participation in the formal labour force ignore a sizeable amount of home economic production, as well as the physical demands of housework.
(10) Daughters raised by an employed mother spend less time on housework than women whose mothers stayed home full-time, but maternal employment has no effect on adult daughters’ involvement in caring for family members.” Belinda Phipps, chair of the Fawcett Society for women’s equality, said: “Although we have known for a long time that there are lots of benefits to children to have working mothers, it is great to see more research confirming this.” But Phipps said it was disappointing to see that progress on sharing domestic housework other than childcare was proving slow to change.
(11) He helped with housework and even occasionally said he enjoyed it.
(12) On the husband's end, he doesn't understand why he's working 50-plus hours a week to financially support a grown woman as well as their children only to come home to the expectation that he do 50% of the housework and support his wife's unpaid volunteer efforts.
(13) Sheryl Sandberg has encouraged men to get involved in advocating for women’s equality at work and at home, academics have pointed out that men’s participation is necessary for real change and earlier this year in his State of the Union address , President Obama said: “It’s time we stop treating child care as a side issue, or a women’s issue, and treat it like the national economic priority that it is for all of us.” It’s true; child care, housework, balancing work and home life - these are issues that men absolutely need to care about and take action on.
(14) The frequency of health-related problems associated with paid employment, housework, social life, home life and sex life decreased, indicating enhanced ability to take part in daily activities.
(15) TV bosses have already axed the hugely popular Super Girl singing contest, promising to replace it with programmes focused on housework and public safety.
(16) The chemical analysis of numerous housework cleansing agents exhibited the constant presence of nickel in these housework cleansings.
(17) Certainly, the lack of real mentorship, ingrained cultural patterns whereby women still bear the brunt of housework and childcare, and inadequate policies around parental leave and child support are all important factors.
(18) When women in an Anatolian town approached the visiting forestry minister in 2009, asking for work, he replied: "Isn't your housework enough?"
(19) Kimmel points to research that shows when men share housework and childcare, their children do better at school, they have higher rates of achievement, lower rates of absenteeism, are less likely to be diagnosed with ADHD and childhood depression, less likely to see therapists and to be put on medication.
(20) They did more than 50% of the housework and in-home child care, with the remainder split between spouse and hired help, even though nearly two thirds were working full-time.