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Businesslike

In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods.

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Efficient 84% connected

Causing effects; producing results; that makes the effect to be what it is; actively operative; not inactive, slack, or incapable; characterized by e…

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Efficient 84% connected

Causing effects; producing results; that makes the effect to be what it is; actively operative; not inactive, slack, or incapable; characterized by e…

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Purposeful 84% connected

Important; material.

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Purposeful 84% connected

Important; material.

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Earnest 92% connected

Seriousness; reality; fixed determination; eagerness; intentness.

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Advisably adverb · 78% connection

With advice; wisely.

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Bank noun · 78% connection

A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.

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Banking noun · 78% connection

transacting business with a bank; depositing or withdrawing funds or requesting a loan etc.

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Brokerage noun · 78% connection

The fee, reward, or commission, given or changed for transacting business as a broker.

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Bystander noun · 78% connection

One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting.

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Claim v./. · 78% connection

To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.

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Commission noun · 78% connection

The brokerage or allowance made to a factor or agent for transacting business for another; as, a commission of ten per cent on sales.…

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Common noun · 78% connection

The right of taking a profit in the land of another, in common either with the owner or with other persons; -- so called from the comm…

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Cone noun · 78% connection

A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; -- call…

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Conjurer noun · 78% connection

One who conjectures shrewdly or judges wisely; a man of sagacity.

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Corporation noun · 78% connection

A body politic or corporate, formed and authorized by law to act as a single person, and endowed by law with the capacity of successio…

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Dealing noun · 78% connection

the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities); "no transactions are possible without him"; "h…

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Dealings noun · 78% connection

the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities); "no transactions are possible without him"; "h…

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Dextrality noun · 78% connection

The state of being on the right-hand side; also, the quality of being right-handed; right-handedness.

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Drill noun · 78% connection

The act or exercise of training soldiers in the military art, as in the manual of arms, in the execution of evolutions, and the like;…

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Equatorial noun · 78% connection

An instrument consisting of a telescope so mounted as to have two axes of motion at right angles to each other, one of them parallel t…

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Establishment noun · 78% connection

That which is established; as: (a) A form of government, civil or ecclesiastical; especially, a system of religion maintained by the c…

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Explore verb · 78% connection

To seek for or after; to strive to attain by search; to look wisely and carefully for.

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