Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not businesslike.
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- adjective Not
businesslike .
Etymologies
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Examples
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They make organizational health - such a mushy, unbusinesslike topic!
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She shook her head, and declined to answer, at the same time looking at the door as if to intimate that it was time for this unbusinesslike conversation to end.
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Its rulebook stipulates that the "use of profane, obscene or unbusinesslike language on the trading floor" could result in a fine.
George Carlin Never Would've Cut It at the New Goldman Sachs
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I was swiftly scolded for my tone: “unbusinesslike, unmannerly, and just plain unaesthetic.”
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I was swiftly scolded for my tone: “unbusinesslike, unmannerly, and just plain unaesthetic.”
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'Talent' is not really an appropriate word to use to describe business skills, because it is loaded with very unbusinesslike meaning, with obvious associations with artists, musicians and sports stars.
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'Talent' is not really an appropriate word to use to describe business skills, because it is loaded with very unbusinesslike meaning, with obvious associations with artists, musicians and sports stars.
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When the largest players in the largest financial markets make unbusinesslike decisions, they can badly distort markets.
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Interestingly Lord Guthrie wondered aloud at the given reason for his departure: he opined that the real reason might well be Lord Drayson's considerable frustration at the incoherent, unstructured and unbusinesslike approach to defence procurement.
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Interestingly Lord Guthrie wondered aloud at the given reason for his departure: he opined that the real reason might well be Lord Drayson's considerable frustration at the incoherent, unstructured and unbusinesslike approach to defence procurement.
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