Taking action

noun

1. The act of performing or executing action

   "that will take a great deal of doing"

2. Things that are done or that occur goings-on

   "everyday doings"

3. Social activities

verb

1. To bring to pass carry out

   "do another's wishes"

2. Put
3. Perform, execute

   "do some work"

4. Commit

   "crimes done deliberately"

5. Bring about, effect

   "trying to do good"

6. To give freely pay

   "do honor to her memory"

7. To bring to an end finish
8. To put forth exert

   "did her best to win the race"

9. To wear out especially by physical exertion exhaust

   "At the end of the race they were pretty well done."

10. To attack physically beat
11. To bring into existence produce

    "do a biography on the general"

12. Used as a substitute verb especially to avoid repetition
13. To play the role or character of

    "He did Hamlet on Broadway."

14. Mimic
15. To perform in or serve as producer of

    "do a play"

16. To treat unfairly
17. To prepare for use or consumption
18. Set, arrange

    "had her hair done"

19. To apply cosmetics to

    "wanted to do her face before the party"

20. Decorate, furnish

    "did the living room in Early American"

21. To be engaged in the study or practice of

    "do science"

22. To pass over traverse

    "did 20 miles yesterday"

23. To travel at a speed of

    "doing 55 on the turnpike"

24. Tour

    "doing 12 countries in 30 days"

25. To spend (time) in prison

    "has been doing time in a federal penitentiary"

26. To serve out (a period of imprisonment)

    "did ten years for armed robbery"

27. To serve the needs of suit, suffice

    "worms will do us for bait"

28. To approve especially by custom, opinion, or propriety

    "You oughtn't to say a thing like that … it's not done."

29. To treat with respect to physical comforts

    "did themselves well"

30. Use

    "doesn't do drugs"

31. To have sexual intercourse with

    "I'd do him."

32. To partake of

    "Let's do lunch."

33. Act, behave

    "do as I say"

34. Get along, fare

    "do well in school"

35. To carry on business or affairs manage

    "We can do without your help."

36. To take place happen

    "what's doing across the street"

37. To come to or make an end finish
38. To be active or busy

    "let us then be up and doing"

39. To be adequate or sufficient serve

    "half of that will do"

40. To be fitting conform to custom or propriety

    "won't do to be late"

41. Used as a substitute verb to avoid repetition
42. Used in the imperative after an imperative to add emphasis
43. Used with the infinitive without to to form present and past tenses in legal and parliamentary language
44. Used with the infinitive without to to form present and past tenses in declarative sentences with inverted word order
45. Used with the infinitive without to to form present and past tenses expressing emphasis
46. to bring to pass : carry out
47. put —used chiefly in do to death
48. perform, execute

idiom

1. To often have a characteristic or to frequently do something

   "She has a way of exaggerating when she tells stories."

idiom

1. Whether a person is happy, successful, etc.

   "I wonder how he's doing."

idiom

1. In the process of doing something

   "When they arrived, I was just in the act of starting to make dinner."

idiom

1. To do things that one's job requires one to do

   "You shouldn't blame her for what happened. She was just/only doing her job."

idiom

1. To require a lot of work

   "Keeping everyone happy does take a lot of doing."

idiom

1. To require a lot of work

   "Keeping everyone happy does take some doing."

idiom

1. Used to ask in a somewhat unfriendly way why someone has possession of (something)

idiom

1. What is happening/going on

   "Let's find out what's doing downtown."