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businessmanlike en · ADJ

Etymology

From businessman + -like.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of a businessman.
   • The opening Memo (an appropriately businessmanlike touch) is followed by sections labelled according to the day, like an appointments-diary... 1996, Sue Kossew, Pen and power: a post-colonial reading of J.M. Coetzee and André Brink:
   • Under the businessmanlike exterior, however, beat a heart just as dashing as that of a movie star. 1986, Penina Spiegel, McQueen: the untold story of a bad boy in Hollywood:
   • A materialistic, businessmanlike attitude toward the creation of manuscripts or even a maternalistic concern for the fate of his books past the publication phase are conspicuously absent from the diary records. 1992, Andrew Lawrence Markus, The willow in autumn: Ryūtei Tanehiko, 1783-1842:

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