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• v  become brisk
  business brisked up
• s  quick and energetic
  a brisk walk in the park
• s  imparting vitality and energy
• s  very active
  doing a brisk business

• Arms merchants are once again doing brisk business after a rapid change of power in this tough town, but so far the peace has held: The Year of The Nuke.
• The couple recently opened a brasserie on a quiet street a few steps away from the city center, and are doing brisk business.
• Online sales have been brisk every year on this day since Internet shopping hit the mainstream in the late 90s, pumped up by better sites and faster Internet connections.

• brisk up
• brisken
• alert
• lively
• merry
• rattling
• snappy
• spanking
• zippy
• bracing
• fresh
• refreshing
• refreshful
• tonic

News & Articles

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• ‘Fashion Police’ host at age 80
  NEW YORK -- "I'm having a great time," Joan Rivers crows before offering a brisk self-appraisal: "Everything is working, my mind is fine.
  June 13, 2013 - Provo Daily Herald
• Soccer moves on without seniors
  It was a brisk and windy 25 degrees at 6 a.m. when the Lady Griz soccer team began practice in an empty Washington-Grizzly stadium. The end zone that is usually dominated by burly Griz football player
  June 12, 2013 - Montana Kaimin
• Survey: 'Brisk' hiring expected in Knoxville in 3Q
  Metropolitan Knoxville employers plan to add new jobs “at a brisk pace” in the third-quarter, according to the latest Manpower Employment Outlook Survey.
  June 11, 2013 - Knoxville News Sentinel

Quotes

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• Louis Gallois in BusinessWeek
  CEO Louis Gallois told analysts in a conference call that while he is "not content" with the level of profits, "we now have a business which is brisk and solid."
• Ben Bernanke in WIS
  In spite of a widening of credit spreads on lower-quality corporate debt, "credit spreads remain near the low end of their historical ranges, and financing activity in the bond and business loan markets has remained fairly brisk," Bernanke said.
• Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett in Kuwait News Agency
  I understand that the meeting with the Iranian Ambassador was brisk but polite. But he was left in no doubt that we want them back, Beckett concluded.