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do the rounds en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of make the rounds.
    • One bit of political speculation doing the rounds just before Christmas was that having lost the battle last year to kill off HS2 in its entirety, frustrated No. 10 advisers are now determined to settle the score by lopping off the eastern arm. 2020 December 30, Nigel Harris interviews Mark Thurston, “All eyes are on HS2's eastern leg”, in Rail, page 29:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
done the rounds Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
did the rounds Tense=Past lexicographic
does the rounds Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
doing the rounds Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic