Do Well

Definition: Do Well

Do Well

Verb

1. Act in one's own or everybody's best interest; "You will do well to arrive on time tomorrow!".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Do Well

Crosswords: Do Well

Quitting is one of the few things I do well. I come from a long line of quitters (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

When my arm is better, you would do well to follow the concert career of a violinist named Sigerson (The Seven-Per-Cent Solution; writing credit: Arthur Conan Doyle; Nicholas Meyer)

Then perhaps you'd do well to stay away from him altogether (L.A. Confidential; writing credit: Brian Helgeland)

I do well on standardized tests (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

You do well enough (Sense and Sensibility; writing credit: Emma Thompson)

Good mornin' kind sir and I hope ya do well (Factory Girl; performing artist: The Roches)

The Ne'er Do Well (1916)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

When a king has dethroned himself, and put himself in a state of war with his people, what shall hinder them from prosecuting him who is no king, as they would any other man, who has put himself into a state of war with them, Barclay, and those of his opinion, would do well to tell us. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

We are unlearning certain things, and we do well, provided that while unlearning one thing we are learning another

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Patients who do not do well on sulfasalazine may respond to newer 5-ASA agents. (references)

Some patients do well by taking medicines that make the work of the right ventricle easier. (references)

The long-term side effects and benefits are not known, and it is difficult to predict which patients will do well with this procedure. (references)

Business

Companies like Johnson & Johnson still do well in the market. (references)

Dutch suppliers also do well in specific niche markets, including pacemakers, x-ray equipment and diagnostics. (references)

Services that increase the availability and decrease the price of the Internet will do well in the French market. (references)

Economic History

Canada

The region of Montreal in particular continues to do well even in the current economic difficulties in North America. (references)

Indonesia

For these reasons, a foreign firm selling to government agencies would do well to appoint an Indonesian firm as its agent. (references)

France

Consequently, they can expect to do well in franchise sectors not yet exploited, as well as in competitive markets, when offering a good price/quality ratio. (references)

Political Rights

Egypt

There were also reports of voter harassment by security forces in jurisdictions in which the Muslim Brotherhood was expected to do well. (references)

Travel

Guinea

U.S. companies could do well with high volume sales of low priced goods. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "do well": do well at school ♦ do well by smb. ♦ ne'er do well. Additional references.

Albanian

shërohem (be on the mend, cure, get abroad, get around, get better, get round, heal, mend, recover, recuperate, resume one's health), përparoj (advance, carry forward, come along, come on, do, flourish, forge, get along, get on, go ahead, go on, make one's way through, progress), më vete mbarë, kam sukses (arrive, be a success, boom, bring off, click, come across, come along, get on with, make a hit, succeed). (various references)

Bulgarian 

справям се (acquit oneself, cope, get along, get through, hold one's own, hold up, manage, refer, shift, shift for oneself, tackle). (various references)

Czech

mít se dobře. (various references)

Finnish

pärjätä (cope, get on, manage). (various references)

French

réussir. (various references)

Greek 

ευημερώ (flourish, prosper, speed, thrive). (various references)

Hungarian

jól cselekszik, helytáll (be correct, to hold on, to hold one's ground). (various references)

Indonesian

membaikkan (do well by, treat well). (various references)

Pig Latin

oday ellway.(various references)

Portuguese

fazer bem, beneficiar (advantage, avail, be favorable, be favourable, benefit, boot, favor, favour, improve, profit). (various references)

Romanian

reuşi (answer, be a success, bring home the bacon, contrive, go on, hit, make one's mark, manage, pan out, pass, pay off, prevail, prosper, qualify, speed, strike, strike oil, succeed, win, work), prospera (boom, flourish, make good, prosper, strike oil, thrive), fi îndreptãţit sã. (various references)

Russian 

преуспевать (do first-rate, gain ground, get along, get on, go to town, make a go of it, make good, make headway, pan out, prosper), идти хорошо (go well). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

dobro činiti. (various references)

Spanish

hacer bien. (various references)

Swedish

sköta sig väl, behandla ngn väl. (various references)

Turkish

iyi olmak, iyi kazanmak, iyi gitmek (go well, prosper, suit), iyi dinlenmiş olmak, becermek (get things done, have a screw, knock off, manage, swing, tackle). (various references)

Ukrainian

гультяй (dangler, good for nothing, ne'er do well, rambler, skulk, wassailer, wretch), нікчема (blighter, bum, cipher, duffer, ne'er do well, nihil, nit, nobody, nonentity, nought, nullity, pygmy, snake, snipe, snipper-snapper, wastrel, wet, whipper-snapper, whipster, zero), нероба (bauchle, dangler, dawdler, dead beat, do nothing, do-naught, fribble, good for nothing, layabout, loafer, loiterer, loon, ne'er do well, rambler, scamp, shack, skulk, spalpeen, waster), ледащо (dawdle, dawdler, fribble, gadabout, layabout, lazybones, ne'er do well, scalawag, scallawag, scallywag, slacker, slob, truant). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: dowel, dwell, lowed.

-2 letters: dell, dole, doll, lewd, lode, lowe, owed, weld, well, wold.

-3 letters: del, dew, doe, dol, dow, eld, ell, led, low, ode, old, ole, owe, owl, wed, woe.

-4 letters: de, do, ed, el, lo, od, oe, ow, we, wo.

+1 letter: allowed, woolled.

+2 letters: bellowed, billowed, bowelled, dowelled, fallowed, fellowed, followed, hallowed, hollowed, mellowed, pillowed, rowelled, sallowed, tallowed, towelled, walloped, wallowed, welldoer, willowed, yellowed.

+3 letters: allowedly, bedfellow, dowelling, lowballed, lowlander, lowlihead, outwilled, shallowed, swallowed, trowelled, welldoers, worldlier.

+4 letters: allowanced, bedfellows, disallowed, downfallen, downhiller, embowelled, goodwilled, lowlanders, lowliheads, snowballed, unhallowed, wholesaled, wildflower, wildfowler, wordlessly, worldliest, yellowwood.