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businesslikeness en · NOUN

Etymology

From businesslike + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The state or condition of being businesslike.
    • I do myself think that this is so; that disputes about standards of businesslikeness are verbal in the sense that they turn on what we choose to mean by 'businesslike', […] 1969, Ronald F. Atkinson, Conduct: an Introduction to Moral Philosophy (page 70)