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| Shopping | The largest selection of BUTTONED-UP products: USA, UK, Canada, Deutschland, France. |
| TV Shop | As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| ADJECTIVE | 1 | buttoned-up | (British colloquial) not inclined to conversation |
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| 2 | buttoned-up | Conservative in professional manner |
| Meaning | (British colloquial) not inclined to conversation. |
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| Similar to | taciturn |
| Region | United Kingdom, UK, U.K., Great Britain, GB, Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
| Usage | colloquialism |
| Meaning | Conservative in professional manner. |
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| Examples | "employers are looking for buttoned-up types" |
| Similar to | conservative |
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