"can do with" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "can do with",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "could do with",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "can<can,-,could,-> do with"
      },
      "expansion": "can do with (third-person singular simple present can do with, no present participle, simple past could do with, no past participle)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1996 March, D. William Shunn, “Celestial Mechanics.”, in Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 90, number 3, page 109",
          "text": "His hair was thinning and slicked back, and he could have done with a good shave.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999 July, Jim McCausland, “Paths of discovery”, in Sunset, volume 203, number 1, page 57",
          "text": "A garden can do with a little mystery, which serpentine paths provide.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000 Spring, Jervis Anderson, “England in Jamaica.”, in American Scholar, volume 69, number 2, page 15",
          "text": "In fact, while balking at the cruel burden he had imposed on me, I thought that his mind could do with some improvement",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000 May 17, John Huges, “How do we find what's true?”, in Christian Science Monitor",
          "text": "Journalism today could do with a little more attention to principle, a little more concern about ethics.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To need; to want; to be in a position to benefit from."
      ],
      "id": "en-can_do_with-en-verb-0X2qRtkw",
      "links": [
        [
          "need",
          "need"
        ],
        [
          "want",
          "want"
        ],
        [
          "benefit",
          "benefit"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, usually with could) To need; to want; to be in a position to benefit from."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "with could"
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "could do with"
        },
        {
          "word": "could do without"
        },
        {
          "word": "can do without"
        },
        {
          "word": "could have done with"
        },
        {
          "word": "could have done without"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "no-past-participle",
        "no-present-participle",
        "transitive",
        "usually"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "can do with"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "can do with",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "could do with",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "can<can,-,could,-> do with"
      },
      "expansion": "can do with (third-person singular simple present can do with, no present participle, simple past could do with, no past participle)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "could do with"
    },
    {
      "word": "could do without"
    },
    {
      "word": "can do without"
    },
    {
      "word": "could have done with"
    },
    {
      "word": "could have done without"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1996 March, D. William Shunn, “Celestial Mechanics.”, in Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 90, number 3, page 109",
          "text": "His hair was thinning and slicked back, and he could have done with a good shave.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999 July, Jim McCausland, “Paths of discovery”, in Sunset, volume 203, number 1, page 57",
          "text": "A garden can do with a little mystery, which serpentine paths provide.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000 Spring, Jervis Anderson, “England in Jamaica.”, in American Scholar, volume 69, number 2, page 15",
          "text": "In fact, while balking at the cruel burden he had imposed on me, I thought that his mind could do with some improvement",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000 May 17, John Huges, “How do we find what's true?”, in Christian Science Monitor",
          "text": "Journalism today could do with a little more attention to principle, a little more concern about ethics.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To need; to want; to be in a position to benefit from."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "need",
          "need"
        ],
        [
          "want",
          "want"
        ],
        [
          "benefit",
          "benefit"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, usually with could) To need; to want; to be in a position to benefit from."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "with could"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "no-past-participle",
        "no-present-participle",
        "transitive",
        "usually"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "can do with"
}