making it one's business
making it one's business is the present participle and gerund 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)
- 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 making it one's business
- What is making it one's business the present participle and gerund of?
- Making it one's business is the present participle and gerund of make it one's business.
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