"chores" in the noun sense

1. job, task, chore

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

"estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars"

"the job of repairing the engine took several hours"

"the endless task of classifying the samples"

"the farmer's morning chores"

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