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posthaste

English

Alternative forms

  • post-haste, post haste

Etymology

From the former instruction on letters ‘haste, post, haste’, later reinterpreted as a compound of post +? haste.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p??st?he?st/
  • (US) IPA(key): /?po?st?he?st/

Adverb

posthaste (not comparable)

  1. quickly, as fast as someone travelling post; with great speed
    It is imperative that you finish your task posthaste.
    • 1946 — Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi, Ch. 17
      "Sasi cannot last through the night." These words from his physician, and the spectacle of my friend, now reduced almost to a skeleton, sent me posthaste to Serampore.

Synonyms

  • (quickly): ASAP, quickly
  • See also Thesaurus:quickly

Noun

posthaste (uncountable)

  1. Alternative spelling of post-haste
    • 1602 : Hamlet by William Shakespeare, act 1 scene 1 l 103-106
      "And this, I take it,
      Is the main motive of our preparations
      The source of this our watch, and the chief head
      Of this post-haste and rummage in the land."

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expeditiously

English

Etymology

expeditious +? -ly

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?ks.p??d??.?s.li/

Adverb

expeditiously (comparative more expeditiously, superlative most expeditiously)

  1. In an expeditious manner

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:quickly

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