Tra từ chore - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

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.