businessmanlike
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From businessman + -like.
Adjective
[edit]businessmanlike (comparative more businessmanlike, superlative most businessmanlike)
- Resembling or characteristic of a businessman.
- 1986, Penina Spiegel, McQueen: the untold story of a bad boy in Hollywood:
- Under the businessmanlike exterior, however, beat a heart just as dashing as that of a movie star.
- 1992, Andrew Lawrence Markus, The willow in autumn: Ryūtei Tanehiko, 1783-1842:
- 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.
- 1996, Sue Kossew, Pen and power: a post-colonial reading of J.M. Coetzee and André Brink:
- The opening Memo (an appropriately businessmanlike touch) is followed by sections labelled according to the day, like an appointments-diary...