do business with

idiom

: to sell to or buy from
We do business with companies overseas.

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SMEs have expressed concern that the reporting of Scope 3 will, by default, require them to create costly sustainability reports, or not be able to do business with large companies. Jon McGowan, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025 And India, like basically all countries that do business with the United States, runs a trade surplus. John Yoon, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2025 Independent experts — who do not have to directly do business with Trump for the next four years — have been more plainspoken. Alexander Smith, NBC News, 3 Feb. 2025 That would put Apple, Google and other companies that do business with TikTok in an awkward position, since the firms would technically be in violation of federal law. Bobby Allyn, NPR, 17 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for do business with

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“Do business with.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/do%20business%20with. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.

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