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