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do without something/someone

Definition

to manage, work, or perform successfully without having someone or something present: The country cannot do without foreign investment. There are a great number of things that he can easily do without.
(Definition of do without something/someone from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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