What's the difference between businesslike and pragmatical?
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.
Pragmatical
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to business or to affairs; of the nature of business; practical; material; businesslike in habit or manner.
(a.) Busy; specifically, busy in an objectionable way; officious; fussy and positive; meddlesome.
(a.) Philosophical; dealing with causes, reasons, and effects, rather than with details and circumstances; -- said of literature.
Example Sentences:
(1) This method seems the best way to evaluate the respective interactions of intonation with syntax and pragmatics.
(2) Although this operational classification does not produce etiologically homogeneous groups, it is believed to have pragmatic utility with respect to planning targeted surveillance and management strategies.
(3) The tasks which appeared to present the most difficulties for the patients were written spelling, pragmatic processing tasks like sentence disambiguation and proverb interpretation.
(4) By its pragmatic conception, modifications obtained by psychoactive agents are used (antidepressants of the group imipramine and IMAO, classical benzodiazepines and alprazolam, provocation controlled in laboratory) in order to strengthen innovating hypotheses and allow to elaborate useful treatment strategies for neuroses.
(5) The US defence industry needs pragmatic engagement, not principles.
(6) The focus of both studies was on children in their second year of life learning verbs in various pragmatic contexts.
(7) Sceptics said the US protections for journalists would make such a prosecution difficult and also cited pragmatic issues, such as the difficulty of extraditing Assange, an Australian.
(8) Trading decisions should be pragmatic, but they're not, especially when you're trying to recoup losses like he was."
(9) Writing on his blog for the Daily Telegraph , the former Conservative chairman said he would be voting Tory in Suffolk for pragmatic reasons to ensure his council did not fall into Labour, Lib Dem of Green hands.
(10) Abdella, now 19, illustrates the constrained choices and warped pragmatism that many here face.
(11) People are more pragmatic now than they were in the 1990s.
(12) This new breed of practitioner will be made up of persons who, for economic and pragmatic reasons, are concerned with accountability and who use single-subject designs to achieve it (Barlow et al., 1984).
(13) Following the announcement that Sky had been awarded the live TV rights to the Open and in light of financial developments since, the choice to amend the current contract from next year was a pragmatic one,” she said in a blog on the BBC website .
(14) "It's not about subjection or colonialism or dry pragmatism.
(15) I regret very much it’s come to this.” But Di Natale characterised the deal as reflective of his pragmatic leadership style.
(16) We will look at everything and we will take a view and it will be a pragmatic approach."
(17) The influence of social context on pragmatic skills of adults with mild to moderate mental retardation was examined.
(18) Another theory posits a split within the Kremlin elite over what to do about the problem of Navalny between the siloviki – Russia's powerful securocrats – and a more pragmatic group of political strategists who argue that the policy of prosecuting President Putin 's opponents, including dead ones such as Sergei Magnitsky , is a bad one.
(19) Mujica remains popular, but presidents cannot serve consecutive terms: the next election, on 26 October, will nevertheless represent a referendum on his pragmatic leftwing government.
(20) Quique Sánchez Flores, the fighter who prefers pragmatism to artistry at Watford Read more Flores is not a man to be discouraged easily and, having hung up his boots in 1997, the right-back – who was part of the Spain squad at the 1990 World Cup – finally lived the dream.