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doing business

doing business is the present participle and gerund 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 doing business

What is doing business the present participle and gerund of?
Doing business is the present participle and gerund of do business.

Words near doing business in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: doing 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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