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Domestic chores
Answer for the clue "Domestic chores ", 9 letters:
housework
Alternative clues for the word housework
Word definitions for housework in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Housework \House"work`\, n. The work belonging to housekeeping; especially, kitchen work, sweeping, scrubbing, bed making, and the like.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the work of cleaning and running a house [syn: housekeeping ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. domestic household chores such as cleaning and cooking.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES do the housework (= jobs in your home such as cleaning, washing clothes etc ) ▪ I’ve been doing the housework all day. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN task ▪ Our engineers also remain responsible for doing, or organising ...
Usage examples of housework.
He still occasionally came home at hours when he could not be expected, but Adela was always occupied either with housework or reading, and received him with the cold self-possession which came of her understanding his motives.
Years of living in bedsits have taught him that ironing-boards and the other impedimenta of housework are the product of little minds intent in filling the days of more creative souls with pointless rituals.
I joined the Renunciates because I wanted to be independent, but I am still doing housework.
Ever since those words were published, mothers of sons have had to wear chastity belts while doing housework.
He started to help her move the dishes to the drain board of her modern wet-sink, but she told him they could wait till she felt more in the mood for housework.
The song varied from dream to dream and Trashcan knew most of them because he had once known a woman, the mother of a boy named Donald Merwin Elbert, who had sung many of the same songs as she did her housework.
The idea of the courageous and resourceful Sister Magdalene, so quick with a vibroblade when the need arose, tramping from one employment bureau to another in search of menial work to keep her body fed was an idea at once distasteful to me-'General Housework & Cooking, live in, Thursday evenings & alternate Sundays off.
People who couldn't do anything else had taken to filling in with housework, for those who were otherwise occupied.
Together they decided to get a pair of Servants for the cooking and cleaning and housework, leaving them more time with each other.
I jumped upstairs, to the apartment, where my mother-in-law and Sarie were doing housework, concluding the day.
The slop bucket gleamed, although the fragments of a broken cup in the bottom said that the recent intensive housework hadn't been without its casualties.
Housework was humdrum, hard but unchallenging, and the house no longer held any stimulation for her.