Businesslikeness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state or condition of being businesslike. uncountable

    "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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"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', […]"

Etymology

From businesslike + -ness.

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