household chores
collocation in Englishmeaningsofhouseholdandchore
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household
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk/ˈhaʊs.həʊld/us/ˈhaʊs.hoʊld/
a group of people, often a family, who ...
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chore
noun[C]
uk/tʃɔːr/us/tʃɔːr/
a job or piece of work that is often boring or unpleasant but needs to be ...
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(Definition ofhouseholdandchorefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Older men have been more likely than women to give money and housing, while older women are significantly more likely to help with household chores.
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Thus, men did not spend any more time on household chores when their wives were employed than they did when their wives were full-time homemakers.
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For giving help, few seniors assisted someone else during baby-sitting (12.4%), but the majority helped with household chores (74.5%).
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Other household chores are handled by the butler, bearer or boy; the second-boy, house-boy, verandah-boy, room-boy, room-service-boy, and dressing-boy (where boy means 'male servant').
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Nevertheless, some users claimed that their befrienders undertook household chores for them.
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Some of the time working at home may also be used to carry out normal household chores.
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Many normal household chores can be performed at the same time or during caring; joint production exists.
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Furthermore, the seniors who regularly received cash support helped more with household chores (1.57).
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This is compatible with the threshold explanation, that fewer who need help only with household chores now receive home-help.
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The instruction continued in like manner with the next 10 sentences associated with household chores.
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In practice, the formal home help services have retreated less from personal care tasks than from household chores : relatives increasingly provide the latter.
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Conversely, couples who maintain egalitarian gender role ideology perceive equitable marital relations to be those in which household chores are divided equally between both spouses.
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The gender difference in assistance with household chores holds both for married and non-married old age parents.
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It mostly comprised help with household chores, and it often came from children or close relatives.
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Thus, most participants saw their roles as primarily to provide practical assistance in household chores and baby-sitting, which freed their children for work.
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She complained that her husband did not do his share of household chores, many of which, she joked, have been 'outsourced', so that take-away meals are now routine.
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Interestingly, the time men spent on household chores did not differ depending on the employment status of their wives, a finding that is consistent with previous studies.
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It is ahouseholdchore, but is also performed in establishments including hospitals, hotels, and military or educational residences.
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That's how household chores have been going in the last couple of decades.
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