Usually means: Perform tasks on someone's behalf.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word do for:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. do for: Merriam-Webster
  2. do for: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. do for: Collins English Dictionary
  4. do for: Wiktionary
  5. do for: Dictionary.com
  6. Do for: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  7. do for: TheFreeDictionary.com
  8. do for: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. do for: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. do for: Legal dictionary
  3. do for: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. do for: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. do for: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. do for: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Definitions from Wiktionary (do for)

verb:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see do, for.
verb:  (transitive, British) To doom; to bring about the demise of someone; to injure or harm someone.
verb:  (transitive, British) To prosecute someone for a criminal offence.
verb:  (UK, dated, intransitive) To work as a domestic servant for.
verb:  (slang) To tire; to exhaust.

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