businesslikeness
English
editEtymology
editFrom businesslike + -ness.
Noun
editbusinesslikeness (uncountable)
- The state or condition of being businesslike.
- 1969, Ronald F. Atkinson, Conduct: an Introduction to Moral Philosophy (page 70)
- 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', […]
- 1969, Ronald F. Atkinson, Conduct: an Introduction to Moral Philosophy (page 70)