do the job

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do the job (informal)

if something does the job, it is suitable for a particular purpose Here, this knife should do the job. I needed to tie the two parts together and an old stocking did the job perfectly.

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A competent virtual assistant will do the job efficiently at a cost lower than what a company would spend by hiring a people to do the job within the business organizational framework. What Is A Personal Virtual Assistant with Virtual Assistant Services? by Jenny M Whte / Business community clarkie There are dozens of marketing professionals in Birmingham who could do the job 100 per cent better at a fraction of the cost From The Forum by Birmingham Mail (England) But at other times you do make the decision not to do the job at the moment, and just put it off. The Hidden Costs of Procrastination by Jason Anderson / Self Improvement community			do level best do me a favour Do me a favour! do more harm than good Do not wash your dirty linen in public do nut do one better do oneself proud do over do own thing do part do proud do share Do sit down do some fine coin do somehow by do somehow for do stuff do the business do the dirty on do the dirty work do the dishes do the hard way do the honors do the honours do the job do the rounds do the running do the trick do the unthinkable do the world of good do time do to excess do up brown Do we have to go through all that again? do with a vengeance do without do you have the time do you mind Do you mind! Do you want to make something of it? dock from doctor Doctor Livingstone, I presume? doctor up doctor's orders dodder along dodo doe does doesn			do some fine coin do somehow by do somehow for do someone credit do something from scratch do something hand in hand Do Something Intelligent Partner Do Something Society Entertainment do stuff do subtraction do the business Do The Damn Mission Do the Dance Do The Deed Do The Deed Do the dew Do the dew do the dirty on do the dirty on do the dirty on do the dirty on do the dirty work do the dishes do the dishes Do the Freaking Math do the hard way do the honors do the honors do the honors do the honours do the job Do the needful Do the needful Do the Reverse Desk Do The Right Extraction Do the Right Print Do The Right Thing do the rounds do the running Do the Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work do the thing do the thing do the thing do the trick do the unthinkable do the will of do the world of good Do They Know It's Christmas do things by halves Do Things My Way do thoroughly do till is blue in the face do till is blue in the face do till is blue in the face do time do to death do to death do to death do to death do to excess do until is blue in the face

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