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do with

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do with (something)

To cope or manage to do something without all the resources that one would ideally like to have. We don't have all the spices we need for this recipe, but since the weather is so bad, we're just going to have to do with what we have. Until I have the money for a new phone, I'll have to do with the same crappy one I've had since high school. I'm a picky eater, yeah, but I'm sure I can do with one of the things you guys have prepared.
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do with someone or something

to do as well as possible with someone or something; to make do with someone or something. I will just have to do with the car I now have. Can she do with just one chair for a while?
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

do with

Put up or manage with, as in I can do with very little sleep. [Early 1800s] Also see can do with; have to do with.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

do with

v.
To manage with something that is not optimal: We don't have time to order new parts; we must do with the parts that we have.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs. Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Certainly, there are many times in business when it is important to give a glib 20-second answer, but there are many other aspects of management that have nothing to do with giving smart answers.
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I've been hearing a lot of talk about "bombing Afghanistan back to the Stone Age." Ronn Owens, on [San Francisco] KGO talk radio, conceded today that this would mean killing innocent people--people who had nothing to do with this atrocity--but "we're at war, we have to accept collateral damage.
I'm very concerned with metaphor and the use of imagery as metaphor, which is a strange and difficult thing to do with cinema.
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The answer has as much to do with business as with technology.
A great deal of this reshaping is attitudinal and has to do with our philosophy of enabling residents to do for themselves.
Ten years ago, I would have gone looking for something to do with the extra two hours at the end of the day." It's especially significant to hear this from a woman who will tell you in an instant why she came into government--"It was Kennedy: Ask not what your country can do for you.
Much of Lean has to do with everybody getting on board, a team effort to become more efficient.
Everything we look at has to do with protecting our brand, which is the "triple A" rating we get from rating agencies.
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