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does business

does business is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 does business

What is does business the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Does business is the third-person singular simple present indicative of do business.

Words near does business in the dictionary

  1. does anyone here speak English
  2. does away with
  3. does battle
  4. does bird
  5. does bits
  6. does business
  7. does by
  8. does by half-measures
  9. does by halves
  10. does cartwheels
  11. does cheetah flips

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Adapted from Wiktionary: does 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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