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make it one's business

make it one's business verb: to undertake to accomplish something or see it done.

Verb

make it one's business (third-person singular simple present makes it one's business, present participle making it one's business, simple past and past participle made it one's business)

  1. To undertake to accomplish something or see it done.
    • By junior high, where every forty-one minutes the bell signaled a four-minute parade of hyper-hormoned bodies through sweat-scented halls, Gayle, with her long hair, clear golden skin, and high, tight curves, was, no contest, the finest girl. She made it her business to look cute every day so she'd...1997, Virginia DeBerry, Donna Grant, Tryin' to Sleep in the Bed You Made

Forms of make it one's business

third-person singular presentmakes it one's business
present participlemaking it one's business
past participlemade it one's business
pastmade it one's business

Questions about make it one's business

What does make it one's business mean?
Make it one's business means to undertake to accomplish something or see it done.
What part of speech is make it one's business?
Make it one's business is a verb.
What is the past tense of make it one's business?
The past tense of make it one's business is made it one's business.

Words near make it one's business in the dictionary

  1. make it big
  2. make it count
  3. make it do or do without
  4. make it interesting
  5. make it make sense
  6. make it one's business
  7. make it one's life
  8. make it rain
  9. make it snappy
  10. make it so
  11. make it so that

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