What's the difference between businesslike and efficient?

Businesslike


Definition:

  • (a.) In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Wearing a dark suit, a white shirt and a black tie, Pistorius, 27, carried a black briefcase, and looked more composed and businesslike than at last year's bail hearings.
  • (2) He first encountered May when the pair stood against each other in the safe Labour seat of Durham in 1992, and recalled her as “very competent, very serious, very businesslike”.
  • (3) This violence comes from multiple sources, but some prominent ones appear to be the businesslike operations of crack distribution, the personal disorganization that surrounds and characterizes the crack-consuming environment, and the distortions of character that crack users describe as often accompanying significant binges of crack consumption.
  • (4) On that basis, the Democrat narrowly deserves to be re-elected … For all his businesslike intentions, Mr Romney has an economic plan that works only if you don't believe most of what he says.
  • (5) [...] Western diplomats have said they were impressed by Zarif's businesslike approach at the foreign ministers' meeting on Thursday and said he put "new ideas" on the table that they did not describe.
  • (6) Breathes's desk at Westword HQ is a classic American office cubicle, sober and businesslike, even though the shelves around his computer are filled with cigarette papers and joint holders.
  • (7) But it shouldn’t be too much to ask for cordial and businesslike relations to be established with Jewish groups.
  • (8) These were very businesslike discussions,” says one White House official.
  • (9) He has already said relations are going to be more businesslike , while Alexander has said the Liberal Democrats can no longer rely on the public learning about the differences within the coalition by osmosis.
  • (10) After his meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry Iran's foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, said "the discussions were very substantive, businesslike," adding he hoped a solution could be found in a timely fashion.
  • (11) It is also possible that the next general round of improvement will result from the application of businesslike information management and marketing techniques.
  • (12) I think they have always been that way, but you have to be businesslike and professional and you have to work with people who aren't your natural bedfellows and that is being grownup in politics."
  • (13) Common to many of these problems is the lack of a businesslike orientation to RDFs and, in particular, lack of careful financial planning and management.
  • (14) In his campaign speech on Monday, Noda gave notice of a moderate, businesslike style of leadership, citing a Japanese poem to describe himself as more of a loach – a bottom-feeding freshwater fish – than a goldfish.
  • (15) "We are not going to leverage the value of the investments that we do make, unless we start to behave in a more businesslike and coherent way across the police service," said one contributor.
  • (16) The atmosphere was businesslike and meetings will continue this afternoon."
  • (17) New Labour is determined to bring a businesslike approach to Government and today, only ten days in to our term of office, I am launching a New Mission Statement for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
  • (18) Even clad in casual clothing and past retirement age, she retained a businesslike demeanor.
  • (19) Villa spent the first 10 minutes bemused by the movement and interchangeability of Chelsea's three-quarter line of Oscar, Willian and Eden Hazard as the visitors opened the game with businesslike intent, moving the ball around purposefully and always appearing to have a spare man.
  • (20) Picking up points against a Chelsea side beginning to look lean and businesslike again seemed a tall order.

Efficient


Definition:

  • (n.) Causing effects; producing results; that makes the effect to be what it is; actively operative; not inactive, slack, or incapable; characterized by energetic and useful activity; as, an efficient officer, power.
  • (n.) An efficient cause; a prime mover.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Theoretical findings on sterilization and disinfection measures are useless for the dental practice if their efficiency is put into question due to insufficient consideration of the special conditions of dental treatment.
  • (2) The hemodynamic efficiency of the drive was tested in a number of in vivo experiments.
  • (3) This may be due to efficient replacement of Leu by Phe at CUC (and, probably, CUU) codons throughout the genome.
  • (4) Meanwhile the efficiency of muscarinic antagonists in inhibition of tremor reaction induced by arecoline administration is associated with interaction between the drugs and the M2-subtype.
  • (5) These lysates are comparable to those of Escherichia coli in transcriptional and translational fidelity and efficiency in response to a given template DNA.
  • (6) The carotenoid lycopene was the most efficient 1O2 quencher (kq + kr = 31 x 10(9) M-1 s-1).
  • (7) The obvious need for highly effective contraception in women with existing disorders of glucose metabolism has led to a search for oral contraceptive (OC) regimens for such women that are efficient but without unacceptable metabolic side effects.
  • (8) McDonald said cutting better deals with suppliers and improving efficiency as well as raising some prices had only partly offset the impact of sterling’s fall against the dollar.
  • (9) Epidermal growth factor reduced plating efficiency by about 50% for A431 cells in different cell cycle phases whereas a slight increase in plating efficiency was seen for SiHa cells.
  • (10) It is argued that this process drove the evolution of present 5' and 3' splice sites from a subset of proto-splice sites and also drove the evolution of a more efficient splicing machinery.
  • (11) Nevertheless, this LTR does not govern efficient transcription of adjacent genes in a transient expression assay.
  • (12) This new protocol has increased the effectiveness of the toxicology laboratory and enhanced the efficiency of the house staff.
  • (13) It is proposed that microoscillations of the eye increase the threshold for detection of retinal target displacements, leading to less efficient lateral sway stabilization than expected, and that the threshold for detection of self motion in the A-P direction is lower than the threshold for object motion detection used in the calculations, leading to more efficient stabilization of A-P sway.
  • (14) Although they were praised in the last five years as the most efficient drugs against cancer and infectious diseases, no great success was clinically and experimentally reported in the past.
  • (15) An efficient numerical algorithm based on the cyclic coordinate search method to solve the latter is explained.
  • (16) A standard protocol is reported for the highly efficient demonstration of replication patterns corresponding to R-type and G-type banding.
  • (17) The experiences with short-time psychotherapies described here are encouraging and confirm results of other groups demonstrating the efficiency of psychotherapeutic interventions with the elderly.
  • (18) Analysis of 156 records relating to patients at the age of 15 to 85 years with extended purulent peritonitis of the surgical and gynecological genesis (the toxic phase, VI category ASA) showed that combination of programmed sanitation laparotomy and intensive antibacterial therapy performed as short-term courses before, during and after the operation with an account of the information on the nature of the microbial associations and antibioticograms was an efficient procedure in treatment of severe peritonitis.
  • (19) Plasmids containing the inverted repeat alone bound ER, though less efficiently than did plasmids containing the entire sequence.
  • (20) As novel antibody therapeutics are developed for different malignancies and require evaluation with cells previously uncharacterized as antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) targets, efficient description of key parameters of the assay system expedites the preclinical assessment.