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View synonyms for to-do

to-do

[ tuh-doo ]

noun

, Informal.
, plural to-dos.
  1. bustle; fuss:

    They made a great to-do over the dinner.



to-do

/ təˈduː /

noun

  1. a commotion, fuss, or quarrel
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of to-do1

before 900; Middle English, Old English; noun use of infinitive phrase; to, do 1, ado
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Synonym Study

See ado.
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Example Sentences

First on the to-do list, the profiling exercises to help the Western masses understand the nature of the wretched beast.

You never see a boxer come out of a well-to-do family because they have nothing to fight for.

Most of us are busy enough without adding yet another item to our to-do lists each day.

She reportedly told police that she had 200 well-to-do customers.

She works as a maid, scrubbing floors and toilets of the well-to-do families in West Hartford, Connecticut.

With time this land had mounted to great values and the holders had been made well-to-do thereby.

His parents were of the well-to-do farming class, occupied from one year's end to the other with the work of the fields.

“But it certainly was a great to-do,” murmured Jessie, as she tried to see what the boys were doing.

Widder Morse wants to ape these well-to-do folks that live tother end o Whiffle Street.

A relative of the Virlaz family, well-to-do Jewish furriers of Leipsic.

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