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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

make it one's business en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To undertake to accomplish something or see it done.
    • By junior high, where every forty-one minutes the bell signaled a four-minute parade of hyper-hormoned bodies through sweat-scented halls, Gayle, with her long hair, clear golden skin, and high, tight curves, was, no contest, the finest girl. She made it her business to look cute every day so she'd be noticed by the boys and envied by the girls. 1997, Virginia DeBerry, Donna Grant, Tryin' to Sleep in the Bed You Made:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
makes it one's business Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
made it one's business Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
made it one's business Tense=Past lexicographic
making it one's business Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic