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do one's business

do one's business verb: especially of a house pet: to defecate or urinate.

Verb

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

  1. (euphemistic, idiomatic) Especially of a house pet: to defecate or urinate.
    • Honey, the neighbor's dog's doing its business in our yard again.

Forms of do one's business

third-person singular presentdoes one's business
present participledoing one's business
pastdid one's business
past participledone one's business

Questions about do one's business

What does do one's business mean?
Do one's business means especially of a house pet: to defecate or urinate.
What part of speech is do one's business?
Do one's business is a verb.
What is the past tense of do one's business?
The past tense of do one's business is did one's business.

Words near do one's business in the dictionary

  1. do off
  2. do one
  3. do one's best
  4. do one's bit
  5. do one's block
  6. do one's business
  7. do one's damnedest
  8. do one's darnedest
  9. do one's duty
  10. do one's ease
  11. do one's easement

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