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businesslikeness

noun

Etymology

From businesslike + -ness.

  1. inherited from bisiġnes — “business, busyness”
  2. inherited from busines
  3. formed as businesslike — “business + -like”
  4. suffixed as businesslikeness — “businesslike + ness”

Definitions

  1. The state or condition of being businesslike.

    • 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', […]

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA