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Businessman vs Businessmanlike - What's the difference?

businessman | businessmanlike |

As a noun businessman

is a man in business, one who works at a commercial institution.

As an adjective businessmanlike is

resembling a businessman or some aspect of one.

businessman

English

(wikipedia businessman)

Noun

(businessmen)
  • a man in business, one who works at a commercial institution

    • Synonyms

    * businessperson

    Related terms

    * entrepreneur

    businessmanlike

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resembling a businessman or some aspect of one.
  • * 1986 , Penina Spiegel, McQueen: the untold story of a bad boy in Hollywood
    • Under the businessmanlike exterior, however, beat a heart just as dashing as that of a movie star.
  • * 1992 , Andrew Lawrence Markus, The willow in autumn: Ry?tei Tanehiko, 1783-1842
    • A materialistic, businessmanlike attitude toward the creation of manuscripts or even a maternalistic concern for the fate of his books past the publication phase are conspicuously absent from the diary records.
  • * 1996 , Sue Kossew, Pen and power: a post-colonial reading of J.M. Coetzee and AndrĂ© Brink
    • The opening Memo (an appropriately businessmanlike touch) is followed by sections labelled according to the day, like an appointments-diary...