do
verb [I usually + adverb] (MANAGE) /də/ /du/ /duː/ /duː/ (did, done)Definition
B1 to develop or continue with the stated amount of success: How is Mary doing in her new job/school? Both the new mother and her baby are doing very well. Are your roses doing all right this year? Many shops are doing badly because of the economic situation. I did rather well when I traded in my car - they gave me a good price for it. Alexa has done well for herself (= has achieved great personal success), getting such a highly paid job. → Synonym manageCoping and not copingDealing with things or peopleTolerating and enduring
(Definition of do verb (MANAGE) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- Abstaining and refraining
- Acting and acts
- Avoiding action
- Becoming better
- Cancelling and interrupting
- Competing and contending (non-sporting)
- Delaying and wasting time
- Describing the leading position
- Efficient and effective
- Expressions telling people to hurry up
- Failing and doing badly
- Failures
- Getting involved for one's own benefit or against others' will
- Hesitating
- Higher and lower points of achievement
- Hurrying and doing things quickly
- Making progress and advancing
- Making things better
- Performing a function
- Potential
- Reacting and responding
- Repeating an action
- Succeeding, achieving and fulfilling
- Success and achievements
- Successful (things or people)
- Surpassing in quality or number
- Taking part and getting involved
- Trying and making an effort
- Unsuccessful (people and things)
- Waiting
- Ways of achieving things
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Synonyms and related words:
- balancing act noun
- be left holding the baby idiom
- bear up phrasal verb
- bite off more than you can chew idiom
- buckle verb (BE DEFEATED)
- fare verb
- get on top of you idiom
- grasp the nettle idiom
- if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen idiom
- juggle verb (MANAGE)
- keep body and soul together idiom
- make ends meet idiom
- meltdown noun (FAILURE)
- muddle through phrasal verb
- pull (sb) through (sth) phrasal verb
- ride (out) the storm idiom
- rise above sth phrasal verb
- roll with the punches idiom
- scrape a living idiom
- scrape verb (SUCCEED)
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