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do business

do business verb: to be engaged in business, to be involved in commerce or trade.

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.

Synonyms of do business

Forms of do business

third-person singular presentdoes business
present participledoing business
pastdid business
past participledone business

Words formed from do business

Questions about do business

What does do business mean?
Do business means to be engaged in business, to be involved in commerce or trade.
What part of speech is do business?
Do business is a verb.
What is the past tense of do business?
The past tense of do business is did business.

Words near do business in the dictionary

  1. do away with
  2. do battle
  3. do bears shit in the woods
  4. do bird
  5. do bits
  6. do business
  7. do by
  8. do by half-measures
  9. do by halves
  10. do cartwheels
  11. do cheetah flips

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