haphazard fashion

collocation in English

meaningsofhaphazardandfashion

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haphazard
adjective
uk
/ˌhæpˈhæz.əd/us
/ˌhæpˈhæz.ɚd/
not having an obvious order ...
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fashion
noun
uk
/ˈfæʃ.ən/us
/ˈfæʃ.ən/
a style that is popular at a particular time, especially in clothes, hair, ...
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(Definition ofhaphazardandfashionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Despite the consistency and coherence of much of the architecture, the city has actually developed in a somewhathaphazardfashion.
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This was not done in anyhaphazardfashion.
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It would be much more effective if fish were brought into market in an organised way and not inhaphazardfashion.
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The funds that are available in this country seem to come in a mosthaphazardfashion.
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The whole position affecting royalty owners is most peculiar; it has grown up in a mosthaphazardfashion.
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As a result, a series of anti-avoidance rules is being built up in the tax system in a prettyhaphazardfashion.
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Let us go away and have some sleep instead of trying to deal with it in a dilapidated andhaphazardfashion.
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The impression created, rightly or wrongly, is that at least a proportion of the assessments are computed in a ratherhaphazardfashion.
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The minutes of this important office are being kept in a veryhaphazardfashion.
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We are well aware of the general principles of energy conservation and, in a ratherhaphazardfashion, apply them to our homes.
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All of us know that the existing pattern has developed in a ratherhaphazardfashion.
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These controls have grown up in a ratherhaphazardfashionin trust ports' local legislation going back over many decades.
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We do these things in the mosthaphazardfashion.
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The bacon industry in this country did, indeed, survive, but in a somewhathaphazardfashion.
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We have certain ideals here, and yet our educational system seems to have been put together in a veryhaphazardfashion.
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I know that certain reductions have been made, but they have been done in a ratherhaphazardfashion.
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Legislation is carried on in a somewhathaphazardfashion.
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Now suddenly in somehaphazardfashionindividuals are to be told that they are to be retained for another six months.
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We built railways a hundred years ago inhaphazardfashionand even then some of the railways and even termini were little used.
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The thing is absurd—dealing with it in this sort of piecemeal,haphazardfashion.
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