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what do you do

what do you do phrase: inquires about the subject's current occupation.

Phrase

what do you do?

  1. Inquires about the subject's current occupation.

Questions about what do you do

What does what do you do mean?
What do you do means inquires about the subject's current occupation.
What part of speech is what do you do?
What do you do is a phrase.

Words near what do you do in the dictionary

  1. what day is it today
  2. what did I tell you
  3. what did your last slave die of
  4. what do I care
  5. what do I know
  6. what do you do
  7. what do you do for a living
  8. what do you know
  9. what do you make the time
  10. what do you mean
  11. what do you say

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