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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
housework
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 others to do, housework tasks.
▪ The one housework task the nanny has removed completely, the vacuuming, used to be her husband's.
▪ Of the six basic housework tasks cooking is, according to these women, potentially the most enjoyable activity.
■ VERB
do
▪ As a female is she prepared to do all the housework because she is biologically determined to do so?
▪ Until now all that women were taught to do, from housework to carpet weaving, was devalued and poorly paid.
▪ At night, the lonesome limbs would be programmed to creep around and do housework while everyone is asleep.
▪ Unusually for the period he suited the action to the word and helped his wife to do the housework.
▪ In addition, she did all the housework, her graduate studies, and held down two part-time jobs.
▪ From what she had told me, I knew that she also did their housework for additional money.
▪ Marjorie did the housework, Margarett paid the bills.
like
▪ She says she does not like housework but she can manage some tasks.
▪ Yes, I do like housework.
▪ No woman likes housework, but it's got to be done.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Housework takes up most of my time in the evenings.
▪ I've got to catch up on the housework this weekend.
▪ I hate doing housework so I pay someone to do it for me.
▪ None of her kids ever help with the housework.
▪ We encourage our kids to help with the housework.
▪ Well, I did all my housework this morning, though you wouldn't think it to look at the place now.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After Mass they would begin their assigned housework duties, cooking, washing or administration.
▪ And he knew I was a soft touch, that I did most of the housework so he could be free.
▪ But because work is not a component of the feminine stereotype housework lacks any conceptualization in sociology as work.
▪ She cooks the teas and does the housework and everything.
▪ She knew she had visited heavy housework upon herself because of her attitude.
▪ Thus some feminists have argued that there should be wages for housework.
▪ Unfortunately, both parents often work today, and after work they have housework, cleaning, laundry to do.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Housework

Housework \House"work`\, n. The work belonging to housekeeping; especially, kitchen work, sweeping, scrubbing, bed making, and the like.

Wiktionary
housework

n. domestic household chores such as cleaning and cooking.

WordNet
housework

n. the work of cleaning and running a house [syn: housekeeping]

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.