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  • 51Doing Business Report — The Doing Business Report (DBR or DB) is a study elaborated by the World Bank Group since 2004 every year that is aimed to measure the costs to firms of business regulations in 183 countries in 2010. The study has become one of the flagship… …

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  • 52doing — do|ing [ˈdu:ıŋ] n 1.) be sb s (own) doing if something bad is someone s doing, they did or caused it ▪ If you fall into this trap, it will be all your own doing. 2.) take some doing informal to be hard work ▪ We had to be on the parade ground for …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 53doing — noun 1 be sb s doing if something bad is someone s doing, they did it: This mess is all your doing. 2 take some doing to be hard work: Sorting this lot out is going to take some doing. 3 doings BrE a) (plural) things that someone does b) (C)… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 54Doing business as — The phrase doing business as (abbreviated DBA, dba or d/b/a) is a legal term used in the United States, meaning that the trade name, or fictitious business name, under which the business or operation is conducted and presented to the world is not …

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  • 55doing — do|ing [ duıŋ ] noun be someone s doing to be someone s fault: We re very late, and it s all your doing. take some doing used for saying that something will be very difficult to do: It will take some doing to finish this before five o clock …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 56doing — UK [ˈduːɪŋ] / US [ˈduɪŋ] noun Word forms doing : singular doing plural doings be someone s doing take some doing …

    English dictionary

  • 57doing business — Within statutes on service of process on foreign corporations, means equivalent to carrying on, conducting or managing business. A foreign corporation is doing business , making it amenable to process within state, if it does business therein in… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 58doing business — Within statutes on service of process on foreign corporations, means equivalent to carrying on, conducting or managing business. A foreign corporation is doing business , making it amenable to process within state, if it does business therein in… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 59doing business in state — A foreign corporation is doing, transacting, engaging in, or carrying on, business in the state when, and ordinarily only when, it has entered the state through its agents and is there engaged in transacting through them some substantial part of… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 60Doing — do do (d[=oo]), v. t. or auxiliary. [imp. {did} (d[i^]d); p. p. {done} (d[u^]n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Doing} (d[=oo] [i^]ng). This verb, when transitive, is formed in the indicative, present tense, thus: I do, thou doest (d[=oo] [e^]st) or dost… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English