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Efficient and methodical
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businesslike
Word definitions for businesslike in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Businesslike \Busi"ness*like`\ (b[i^]z"n[e^]s*l[imac]k`), a. In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods; practical and efficient. 2. serious and purposeful.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 methodical and efficient, in a way that would be advantageous to a business or businessperson 2 earnest and practical without being distracted or enthusiastic
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB more ▪ The postwar years saw recurrent crises, and resolutions to be more businesslike and to cut losses. ▪ The Republicans were a much more businesslike group. ▪ It was so much more businesslike to spread out ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. exhibiting methodical and systematic characteristics that would be useful in business not distracted by anything unrelated to the goal [syn: earnest ]
Usage examples of businesslike.
Other letters were taken up with businesslike requests for trade goods, as Adams was again supplying her with regular shipments.
Visibly shaken, Brummel took a few moments to put on his relaxed, businesslike, public image.
There was not nearly so much to do as one would have supposed, for, with all his dreaminess, he had been oddly neat and businesslike in all parish matters.
But Herm did not seem to be trying to be charming now, just businesslike and impersonal.
Judges addressing juries, or prospective jurors, could be friendly and avuncular or tight and businesslike.
It was creamy gray, gracefully proportioned, with balustraded steps leading up to the black front door, and businesslike but decorative metal grilles showing behind the glass in every window from semibasement to roof.
Thus, very shortly, Virgilia Samms found herself, completely helpless and completely unrecognizable, walking awkwardly out of the house between a businesslike doctor and a solicitous nurse.
They preferred taut, trim triremes and biremes, usually undecked, with two banks of oars in outriggers and very businesslike bronze beaks for ramming.
They also sent frantic warnings to the Carnutes, terrified at the promptness of those four new legions, their businesslike air, their glittering armor, their latest-model artillery.
She was businesslike and cool, but Olivia could also tell she was very excited.
There were just the scoutships standing quietly over their tubes, men working in a businesslike fashion in the great rock gallery, and us.
I had notes in my pocket-book, and I marshalled my facts, and gave, I flatter myself, a very businesslike statement of my own unbusinesslike ways and lamentable position.
Riley kept his distance, maintaining a businesslike attitude that broke Caralie's heart and yet made things easier.
Partussian soldiery in operational kit moved about in businesslike fashion, occasionally discharging annihilators at an imaginary enemy.
Also the theaters in Bridgeport weren't like the antiquey old Harwich or the somehow businesslike Empire, with its plain, undecorated marquee.