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dispatch
[ dih-spach ]
verb (used with object)
- to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- to dismiss (a person), as after an audience.
- to put to death; kill:
The spy was promptly dispatched.
- to transact or dispose of (a matter) promptly or speedily.
verb (used without object)
- Archaic. to hasten; be quick.
noun
- the sending off of a messenger, letter, etc., to a destination.
- the act of putting to death; killing; execution.
- prompt or speedy transaction, as of business.
- expeditious performance; promptness or speed:
Proceed with all possible dispatch.
- Commerce.
- a method of effecting a speedy delivery of goods, money, etc.
- a conveyance or organization for the expeditious transmission of goods, money, etc.
- a written message sent with speed.
- an official communication sent by special messenger.
- Journalism. a news story transmitted to a newspaper, wire service, or the like, by one of its reporters, or by a wire service to a newspaper or other news agency.
dispatch
/ dɪˈspætʃ /
verb
- to send off promptly, as to a destination or to perform a task
- to discharge or complete (a task, duty, etc) promptly
- informal.to eat up quickly
- to murder or execute
noun
- the act of sending off a letter, messenger, etc
- prompt action or speed (often in the phrase with dispatch )
- an official communication or report, sent in haste
- journalism a report sent to a newspaper, etc, by a correspondent
- murder or execution
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Derived Forms
- disˈpatcher, noun
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Other Words From
- outdis·patch verb (used with object)
- predis·patch noun verb (used with object)
- redis·patch verb (used with object)
- self-dis·patch noun
- undis·patched adjective
- undis·patching adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of dispatch1
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Idioms and Phrases
- mentioned in dispatches, British. honored by being named in official military reports for special bravery or acts of service.
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Example Sentences
What got leaked to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on October 22?
Det. Johnson left in an elevator and I found myself alone in the building, save two women in the dispatch center.
He presumably felt he owed it to himself to make one more visit to hell and report back with a cliché-busting dispatch.
And a recording of the police dispatch seems to blow the case to bits.
He initially sent that letter to the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
The Colonel read the dispatch of Captain Duffield, sitting on his bed in his nightclothes.
The Weekly Dispatch's accounts of the next world are well worth staying alive for.
I am pushing the smiths as hard as possible, and you must do the same at your works, that the greatest dispatch may be made.
If the offeree sent a telegram, then he would be obliged to prove the delivery of the dispatch.
Before leaving Verdun he had seen Pierrepont enter the telegraph bureau—to dispatch a message to the Sûreté, without a doubt.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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