chares

noun

variants or chars
plural of chare
as in duties

Related Words

Relevance

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for chares
  1. duties
  2. tasks
  3. jobs
  4. assignments
  5. projects
  6. responsibilities
  7. commissions
  8. charges
Noun
  • Shimmy helms chorus duties before passing the baton to Future, who shades a woman he’s done with.
    — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Manifest Pictures has boarded international sales rights ahead of the American Film Market, taking over sales duties from XYZ.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of duties
Noun
  • The researchers evaluated VFlash across several two-dimensional and three-dimensional robot trajectory prediction tasks.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2026
  • For these more demanding tasks, the K70 offers a full-coverage cleaning mode that tackles floors, walls, waterlines and slopes.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of tasks
Noun
  • Eco effort The hotel has achieved the highest level of BREEAM certification for its sustainability performance and has brought 650 new jobs to the area.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Nov. 2026
  • In August, Musk’s companies received a $30-million grant through a state program to build a semiconductor plant that is estimated to create 3,000 jobs, one of several cash infusions he’s received through state programs.
    — Jesse Bedayn, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of jobs
Noun
  • Her Congressional assignments include the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, along with Science, Space & Technology.
    — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2026
  • The ball sticks, defensive assignments get lost, and the Nets begin to resemble five players waiting for a bad night to end.
    — C.J. Holmes, New York Daily News, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of assignments
Noun
  • Rejecting the bonds leaves commissioners responsible for determining how to finance those projects through other means or delay them.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 4 Nov. 2026
  • While working on other projects over the following year, Lindsey toyed with ideas for using the steering technique to test introspection.
    — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of projects
Noun
  • Officials, for example, have not explained whether Young’s administrative leave was related to allegations against him personally, his supervisory responsibilities or another reason.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Her responsibilities included setting up the cashier with money, turning on the ovens so baking can start quickly and communicating with the team.
    — Melinda Moore, Chicago Tribune, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of responsibilities
Noun
  • The council would decide which commissions received those powers and could later revoke them.
    — Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Rama compares the situation to that of China, which 20 years ago was giving its most prominent building commissions to foreign architects, including some of the same ones working in Albania today.
    — Fred A. Bernstein, Architectural Digest, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of commissions
Noun
  • Since the charges surfaced, Aurora Mayor John Laesch has called on Johnson to resign from her seat on the board, and from her position as executive director of the Marie Wilkinson Food Pantry.
    — Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2026
  • The petition is part of a fast-moving swirl of lawsuits, criminal charges and court orders surrounding the government’s list of potential noncitizens.
    — Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of charges
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.

Browse Nearby Words

chare
chares
charge
See all Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

“Chares.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chares. Accessed 10 Nov. 2026.

Copy Citation
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!

Last Updated: - Updated example sentences

More from Merriam-Webster

Word of the Day

Listen to the pronunciation of defer

See Definitions and Examples »

Popular in Grammar & Usage

See More

How to Use 'Who' vs. 'Whom'

31 Useful Rhetorical Devices

More Commonly Misspelled Words

Merriam-Webster’s Great Big List of Words You Love to Hate

'Affect' vs. 'Effect'
See More

Popular in Wordplay

See More

Great Big List of Beautiful and Useless Words, Vol. 5

9 Words That Sound Like Insults But Aren't

The Longest Long Words List

Even More Bird Names that Sound Like Insults (and Sometimes Are)

12 Lovely and Unusual Words for the Natural World
See More

Popular

See More

How to Use 'Who' vs. 'Whom'

Great Big List of Beautiful and Useless Words, Vol. 5

9 Words That Sound Like Insults But Aren't
See More

Games & Quizzes

See All
Play Quordle: Guess all four words in a limited number of tries. Each of your guesses must be a real 5-letter word.
Quordle Can you solve 4 words at once?
Play Blossom: Solve today's spelling word game by finding as many words as you can using just 7 letters. Longer words score more points.
Blossom Pick the best words!
Play Missing Letter: a crossword with a twist. Each of the 25 puzzle words start with a different letter of the alphabet. Which letter is missing?
The Missing Letter A daily crossword with a twist
woman sitting on floor holding book in front of her face on pink background
Famous Novels, Last Lines Quiz Needless to say, spoiler alert.
See All