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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Having an informal, relaxed appearance or approach, particularly in business..
He had a shirt-sleeve style of management.
The Exploration Cooling Garment shall allow a crewmember to maintain their nominal shirt-sleeve range of motion.
Not one of those rustic wassals of the Ouse of Widdlers, but ad his air curled and his shirt-sleaves tied up with pink ribbing as he led to the macy dance some appy country gal, with a black velvit boddice and a redd or yaller petticoat, a hormylu cross on her neck, and a silver harrow in her air!
But Dick's necessity of behaving as he did was a projection of some submerged reality: he was compelled to walk there, or stand there, his shirt-sleeve fitting his wrist and his coat sleeve encasing his shirt-sleeve like a sleeve valve, his collar moulded plastically to his neck, his red hair cut exactly, his hand holding his small briefcase like a dandy—just as another man once found it necessary to stand in front of a church in Ferrara, in sackcloth and ashes.
Use shirt-sleeve when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Shirt-sleeve means Having an informal, relaxed appearance or approach, particularly in business..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
He had a shirt-sleeve style of management.
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