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Definition of Chore

Chore

A small job; in the pl., the regular or daily light work of a household or farm, either within or without doors.

To do chores.

A choir or chorus.

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Chore Quotations

My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
Erma Bombeck

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.
Kate DiCamillo

I enjoy talking to young people, and talking to people about helping young people. That part is not a chore. It's pretty fun, and something I like to do because I think it's important.
Tony Dungy

Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving.
David Sarnoff

I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure.
Steven Chu

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.
Julie Andrews

If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.
Rex Stout

I was never overexposed and work never became a chore. I was a very good girl wanting to do a good job.
Anna Paquin

If I give myself a chore, for instance, when I was writing the songs for Shameless, I said to myself, Now, every day for 90 days you have to write a song; good, bad or indifferent. So that was really helpful.
Judy Collins

I used to hate, with a capitol H, making videos. It was nothing but a chore. It was something you had to do to have your music accepted in the visual medium.
Sheena Easton

If I had to control what I was speaking, it would be a chore. Right now I just feel I've got my shoes off, everybody comes in, I talk. If I was an actor it could be a problem, but right now I just talk all the crap, I can badmouth anybody I want, I can say what I want and move on.
Tarsem Singh

I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.
Bill Forsyth

To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a 'home' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.
Emily Post

For me, the big chore is always the same: how to begin a sentence, how to continue it, how to complete it.
Claude Simon

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Chore Translations

chore in German is Hausarbeit, Arbeit {f}
chore in Spanish is tarea
chore in Swedish is uppgift

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