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doings

British  
/ ˈduːɪŋz /

plural noun

  1. deeds, actions or events

  2. informal anything of which the name is not known, or euphemistically left unsaid, etc

    have you got the doings for starting the car?

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“Yes, but I’ll have no doings, or few. I shall invent, and you’ll have to decide what is real.”

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Dr. Alfred Lanning viewed the proceedings with faint scorn—his usual reaction to the doings of the vastly better-paid business and sales divisions.

From Literature

If the priest, who had for so long been unwilling to condemn the Trementinas’ doings, had taken a stand then surely that would lend courage to the villagers.

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I hadn’t said or implied a word to him about my recent, extracurricular doings, and I was dying to make this final news-break—to scoop him thoroughly—when we were alone.

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But I told Lloyd Charlie thought he was getting too old for doings like this.

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