businessmanlike

businessmanlike

English

Etymology

businessman +‎ -like

Adjective

businessmanlike (comparative more businessmanlike, superlative most businessmanlike)

1. Resembling a businessman or some aspect of one.
   • 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...