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did business

did business is the simple past of do business.

Meaning of do business

Verb

do business (third-person singular simple present does business, present participle doing business, simple past did business, past participle done business)

  1. (intransitive) To be engaged in business, to be involved in commerce or trade.
    • I simply refuse to do business with such ruffians.
  2. (slang) Especially of a house pet: to urinate or defecate.

Questions about did business

What is did business the simple past of?
Did business is the simple past of do business.

Words near did business in the dictionary

  1. did a slow burn
  2. did away with
  3. did battle
  4. did bird
  5. did bits
  6. did business
  7. did by
  8. did by half-measures
  9. did by halves
  10. did cartwheels
  11. did cheetah flips

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Adapted from Wiktionary: did business (page history and authors); do business (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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