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done business

done business is the past participle 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 done business

What is done business the past participle of?
Done business is the past participle of do business.

Words near done business in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: done 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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