businesslike

We are trying to run this in a businesslike way.

As you Americans like to say, it was a very businesslike meeting.

We put together a good deal in a businesslike way that will pay out.

The judge was a young, businesslike woman who turned out to be really kind.

We always had a businesslike approach and found ways to win.

This time, the meeting was said to have been businesslike.

I reached him at his office and tried to sound businesslike.

The businesslike secretary had been left behind in the office.

"This is a much more businesslike approach to a business issue and it's getting better results."

She was, if possible, even more businesslike than she'd been at the police station.

But there was a certain businesslike respect for each other.

The business of running local governments is getting ever more businesslike.

He tried to put a businesslike expression on his face.

When he spoke again his voice was cold and businesslike.

It made the whole project seem more businesslike and official.

I'm just trying to put it on a businesslike basis.

She had released his hand and was talking in a businesslike way.

Each time he went off drinking she became more businesslike with him.

I'll call you if we need to talk Her look suddenly turns hard, businesslike.

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He got down to the job quickly and in a businesslike manner.

"I thought we came with a businesslike attitude, especially the first half."

In short, they hold that the big businesses are businesslike.

All of this will be conducted in a very businesslike way, you see.

Even so, the nature of the Sister's report, the words, were short and businesslike.