Adjective
business-like (comparative more business-like, superlative most business-like)
Alternative form of businesslike.
London times – the untiring energy, the business-like accuracy, the keen perception and reliable judgment, and above all the inflexible integrity which marked his private life, he carried without abatement of one jot into his public career. Alexander Mackenzie
Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence. E. F. Benson
If their win in Game 2 was emphatic, the one in Game 3 was business-like. Source: Internet
Domestic policy St-Laurent's government was modestly progressive, fiscally conservative and run with business-like efficiency. Source: Internet
Sophie Wessex appears business-like in a blazer as she joins. Source: Internet
He both scorned the idea of "consensus politics" and wanted the Conservative Party to become a modern business-like party, freed from its old aristocratic and "old boy network" associations. Source: Internet