doingnoun
uk/ˈduː.ɪŋ/us/ˈduː.ɪŋ/doing noun (ACTION)
be sb's doing [ U ]
to be done or caused by someone:
Is this your doing? (= Did you do this?)
It was not my doing.
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deed
take some doing [ U ]
to be difficult to do and need a lot of effort:
Running a marathon takes some/a lot of doing.
doings [ plural ] UK
someone's activities:
The doings of the British royal family have always been of interest to the media.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Acting and acts
- (your) every move idiom
- -ation
- act/do sth on your own responsibility idiom
- action
- activity
- agency
- ant
- be up to sth idiom
- feel
- gambit
- give yourself over/up to sth
- go about sth
- go about your business idiom
- go through with sth
- hand
- initiative
- manoeuvre
- manoeuvring
- money
- up to
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Difficult things and people
Effort and expending energy
doing noun (THING)
doings [ C ] plural doings UK informal
anything, especially a small object, whose name you have forgotten or do not know:
I'm looking for a doings to hold up a curtain rail that's fallen down.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Objects - general words
- affair
- artefact
- artifact
- column
- conversation piece
- curio
- doodad
- doodah
- entity
- ephemera
- knick-knack
- lot
- object
- phenomenon
- piece
- shape
- such and such
- thing
- widget
- wisp
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