Definition of "do without"

do without

verb
third-person singular simple present does without, present participle doing without, simple past did without, past participle done without
1. (chiefly transitive) To manage despite the lack of.
  Quotations
  Let us consider the charges against this individual. Let us ask, Can we do without him?
  1916 March 11, H.G. Wells, “What is Coming”, in Saturday Evening Post‎
  He liked Tom all right... Sampson and Bullock he could do without, however. Especially Sampson, who was too much of a grammar-school-type swot ever to be quite the thing.
  1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, London: Heinemann, page 23
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see do,‎ without.