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Example sentences for: businesslike

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When the editor in chief returned from her vacation "and found Clare in place, looking both businesslike and elegant, she assumed Condé [Nast] had hired her.
Harvard Law School has undertaken a process of long-term strategic planning "so as to maximize achievement of its core mission," according to Dean Robert Clark's semigrammatical but completely businesslike manifesto in the school's alumni bulletin.
Its counterfeitproof construction--which includes the use of unreproducible holographs--attests to the businesslike thought of its designers.
With these two laws, Congress imposed on federal agencies a new and more businesslike framework for management and accountability.
In other words, the acquisition may have the unforeseen effect of making the whole industry more businesslike.