do

do vb did, done, do·ing, does

vt

1: perform execute

2: commit

did this act of cruelty

verbal auxiliary

— used with the infinitive without to to form present and past tenses in legal and parliamentary language

do hereby bequeath

do business: to be engaged in business activities (as soliciting sales); specif: to engage in activities sufficient to subject a foreign company to the personal jurisdiction of a state

was sufficient to constitute doing business in the state — International Shoe Co. v. Washington, 326 U.S. 310 (1945) see also doing business statute