"business-like" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "more business-like",
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    },
    {
      "form": "most business-like",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "word": "businesslike"
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          "ref": "1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter VIII, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 139:",
          "text": "Mr. Meadows was a short square man, with a business-like walk, a steady eye, a leathery, unvarying complexion.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave I. Marley’s Ghost.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 31:",
          "text": "“You must have been very slow about it, Jacob,” Scrooge observed, in a business-like manner, though with humility and deference.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1913, Emilie Benson Knipe, Alden Arthur Knipe, Beatrice of Denewood: A Sequel to “The Lucky Sixpence”, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., page 209:",
          "text": "“Parlez-vouses or our own men?” demanded the Squire in a business-like tone.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1919, Henry B[lake] Fuller, “Cope Absent from a Wedding”, in Bertram Cope’s Year: A Novel, Chicago, Ill.: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, The Alderbrink Press, →OCLC, pages 266–267:",
          "text": "Then there would be a rapid ten-day wedding-journey, followed by a prompt, business-like occupancy of the new apartment on the first of May exactly.",
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        "Alternative form of businesslike."
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  "word": "business-like"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more business-like",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most business-like",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter VIII, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 139:",
          "text": "Mr. Meadows was a short square man, with a business-like walk, a steady eye, a leathery, unvarying complexion.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave I. Marley’s Ghost.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 31:",
          "text": "“You must have been very slow about it, Jacob,” Scrooge observed, in a business-like manner, though with humility and deference.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1913, Emilie Benson Knipe, Alden Arthur Knipe, Beatrice of Denewood: A Sequel to “The Lucky Sixpence”, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., page 209:",
          "text": "“Parlez-vouses or our own men?” demanded the Squire in a business-like tone.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1919, Henry B[lake] Fuller, “Cope Absent from a Wedding”, in Bertram Cope’s Year: A Novel, Chicago, Ill.: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, The Alderbrink Press, →OCLC, pages 266–267:",
          "text": "Then there would be a rapid ten-day wedding-journey, followed by a prompt, business-like occupancy of the new apartment on the first of May exactly.",
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