[U] speed in doing sth, especially because you do not have enough time:
In her haste to complete the work on time, she made a number of mistakes. * The letter had clearly been written in haste. * After his first wife died, he married again with almost indecent haste. * Why all the haste? * (old-fashioned) She made haste to open the door.
IDIOMS
more haste, less speed (BrE, saying) you will finish doing sth sooner if you do not try to do it too quickly because you will make fewer mistakes
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for haste is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is haste a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, haste is tagged as noun.
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