What does business-like mean?
Business-like means Alternative form of businesslike..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Alternative form of businesslike..
Mr. Meadows was a short square man, with a business-like walk, a steady eye, a leathery, unvarying complexion.
“You must have been very slow about it, Jacob,” Scrooge observed, in a business-like manner, though with humility and deference.
“Parlez-vouses or our own men?” demanded the Squire in a business-like tone.
Then there would be a rapid ten-day wedding-journey, followed by a prompt, business-like occupancy of the new apartment on the first of May exactly.
Use business-like when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Business-like means Alternative form of businesslike..
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Mr. Meadows was a short square man, with a business-like walk, a steady eye, a leathery, unvarying complexion.
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