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[ noun ] a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee

Synonyms

job task

Examples

: "the job of repairing the engine took several hours" "the endless task of classifying the samples" "the farmer's morning chores"

Used in print

(The Sun, [Baltimore],...)

Bill_Kunkel , Bob_Hartman and Ed_Keegan did the mound chores for the club down from West_Palm_Beach to play the game before 767 paying customers in Miami_Stadium .

Twenty-one year old Milt_Pappas and Jerry_Walker , 22 , are scheduled to share the Oriole mound chores against the Bombers ' Art_Ditmar in Sunday 's 2 P.M. encounter .

(Ann Hebson, The Lattimer Legend....)

Kate had walked past the school on her morning chores and had seen the whole incident , had seen Joel 's burning humiliation before Miss_Snow 's cold , bespectacled wrath .

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