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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
businesslike
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
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▪ 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 needlework or write letters sitting at a table.
▪ The telephone, therefore, saves time and gives you the opportunity to be more businesslike, if that is appropriate.
▪ C&I group chairman Edward Smethurst said it aimed to become more businesslike.
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▪ The Wedding Present are very businesslike.
▪ But you can be very businesslike, downright cold.
▪ The Yamaha bass looks very good, too, and feels very businesslike.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ As a lawyer, you have to be controlled and businesslike at all times.
▪ Gates gave a brief, businesslike explanation of his plans for the company.
▪ Ted was friendly but businesslike and very much in charge.
▪ The representatives were serious businesslike diplomats who disliked small talk.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Eden began his premiership in a businesslike fashion even though he had decided on an instant election.
▪ Every session is different - some sessions race by, others drag, some are quite businesslike, others get very emotional.
▪ I suppose that made it sound more businesslike.
▪ If any employee is sinking on the job, you need to respond in a businesslike way.
▪ The businesslike appearance carries through the office.
▪ The Republicans were a much more businesslike group.
▪ There are times when you have to make your plays in a businesslike manner.
▪ We got all the relevant information, but it was delivered in a businesslike manner.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Businesslike

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
businesslike

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

WordNet
businesslike

  1. adj. exhibiting methodical and systematic characteristics that would be useful in business

  2. 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.