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plural chores
A task, especially a difficult, unpleasant, or routine one. quotations examples
Shorty after his nomination as Chief Justice was announced, it came to light that while on the Court, Fortas, a close friend of Johnson's, had performed a number of personal and political chores for him. This was a clear violation of the principle of separation of powers.
1978, Richard Nixon, RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Grosset & Dunlap, page 418
third-person singular simple present chores, present participle choring, simple past and past participle chored
(US, dated) To do chores. examples
(Scotland, dialect) To steal. examples
(obsolete) A choir or chorus. quotations
On every wall, and sung where e'er I walk. I number these, as being of the chore
a. 1638 (date written), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Under-woods. Consisting of Divers Poems. (please specify the poem)”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640