Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In England, chares or odd work; work, usually menial, done by the job or by the day.
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Examples
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This woman, we are further informed, kept cows, chickens, and lodgers, and earned additional money by doing laundry and charwork.
The Pivot of Civilization Margaret Sanger 1924
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This woman, we are further informed, kept cows, chickens, and lodgers, and earned additional money by doing laundry and charwork.
Reasoned Audacity 2009
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"At present, everything is charwork at their place, and as to their food, I don't suppose they think much about it, so that they get enough.
The Girl at Cobhurst Frank Richard Stockton 1868
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