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Definition of doing noun from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

doing

noun

NAmE//ˈduɪŋ//

[countable, usually plural, uncountable]

a thing done or caused by someone I've been hearing a lot about your doings recently. I promise you this was not my doing (= I didn't do it).

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Idioms

take some doing, take a lot of doing

to be hard work; to be difficult Getting it finished by tomorrow will take some doing.

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