businesslikeness

English

Etymology

businesslike +‎ -ness

Noun

businesslikeness (uncountable)

  1. The state or condition of being businesslike.
    • 1969, Ronald F. Atkinson, Conduct: an Introduction to Moral Philosophy (page 70)
      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', […]
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