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business ventured adj. The state of being drunk and treating the journey home as a profitable risk. Mariosa was business ventured, investing in one final round before the uncertain walk home. business-as-usualed adj. Drunk, with the result that the evening's irregularities were processed as standard procedure. Daquita became business-as-usualed and ordered a taxi for an absent colleague. business-casualed adj. Drunk by the third round, and dressed neither formally nor quite appropriately. Talyor became business-casualed and removed the tie without improving matters. business-friendlinessed adj. The condition of a drinker who welcomes every further round, provided somebody else handles the arrangements. Jennalyn was business-friendlinessed, inviting the whole table to continue elsewhere. business-manned adj. Slowed by drink to conducting the walk home like a commercial negotiation, one pavement at a time. Rosalinda was business-manned, pausing at each corner to renegotiate the route. businesscrated adj. The drunkenness of one who has turned last orders into paperwork and the coat rack into an authority. Alto became businesscrated, issuing forms for coats before allowing anyone towards the door. businessed (/ˈbɪz.nɪsd/) adj. Emboldened by drink to conduct ordinary transactions as though personally responsible for them. Clorise became businessed and attempted to renegotiate the pub's tenancy. businessesed adj. Drunk beyond ordinary speech and communicating solely in inflated commercial jargon, to the exhaustion of the room. Tailyr got businessesed and described leaving the party as a strategic departure opportunity. businessfolked adj. Softened by drink into a crowd of colleagues who regard every departure as a collective negotiation. Jaivion was businessfolked, gathering strangers into a committee for the walk home. businesslessnessed adj. Sharpened by drink into a person with no remaining business except locating the next open bar. Brajen was businesslessnessed, leaving the closed pub without a plan or a coat. businesslikenessed adj. Loosened by drink into a figure whose orderly departure has become an informal negotiation. Tosia was businesslikenessed, arranging the taxis with an air of official improvisation. businessman's LSD'd adj. Having drunk more than a commercial establishment can reasonably absorb, and pursuing revelations among the paperwork. Safi was businessman's LSD'd, finding profound significance in the quarterly accounts. businessman's lunched adj. You have drunk enough to mistake an ordinary midday meal for an expedition requiring expense approval. Jermone was businessman's lunched and negotiated over sandwiches as though signing a merger. businessman's risked adj. You are drunk and committing resources to improbable improvements whose chief advantage is their deductibility. businessman's specialed adj. Of a drinker: temporarily persuaded that an extravagant evening constitutes a professional obligation. Tyreace was businessman's specialed and charged the champagne to professional development. businessman's tripped adj. Of a drinker who has mistaken routine commerce for a visionary journey and begun taking dictation from the furniture. Fenner was businessman's tripped, receiving strategic advice from the office plant.