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businesslike

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1. businesslike - Adjective

2. businesslike - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of. Robert Frost

Investing is most intelligent when it is most businesslike. Benjamin Graham

Rest assured, for every piece of business the most businesslike thing is to choose the right moment. Menander

Clare takes a mouthful, swallows it in a businesslike fashion, and says, "Well, that's not so bad.” "That's a twenty-something-dollar bottle of wine.”. Audrey Niffenegger

The steps taken today serve to preserve the basic features of socialist renewal. All the reforms will be continued in an atmosphere of order, businesslike discussion and discipline, also economic reform. Wojciech Jaruzelski

I don't run outside, honestly. Sometimes I go out around my house, but mainly it's the stupid treadmill. I wish I had a better answer, but I'm very businesslike about my runs. Drew Carey

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