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makes it one's business

makes it one's business is the third-person singular simple present indicative of make it one's business.

Meaning of make it one's business

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

Questions about makes it one's business

What is makes it one's business the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Makes it one's business is the third-person singular simple present indicative of make it one's business.

Words near makes it one's business in the dictionary

  1. makes into
  2. makes it
  3. makes it big
  4. makes it count
  5. makes it interesting
  6. makes it one's business
  7. makes it one's life
  8. makes it rain
  9. makes it snappy
  10. makes it so
  11. makes it so that

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