dispatch
IPA: dɪspˈætʃ
noun
- A message sent quickly, as a shipment, a prompt settlement of a business, or an important official message sent by a diplomat, government official, military officer, etc.
- The act of doing something quickly.
- A mission by an emergency response service, typically involving attending to an emergency in the field.
- (computing) The passing on of a message for further processing, especially through a dispatch table.
- (obsolete) A dismissal.
verb
- (transitive) To send (a shipment) with promptness.
- (transitive) To send (a person) away hastily.
- (transitive) To send (an important official message) promptly, by means of a diplomat or military officer.
- (transitive) To send (a journalist) to a place in order to report.
- (transitive) To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.
- (transitive) To rid; to free.
- (transitive) To destroy (someone or something) quickly and efficiently.
- (transitive) To defeat
- (transitive, computing) To pass on for further processing, especially via a dispatch table (often with to).
- (intransitive, obsolete) To hurry.
- (transitive, obsolete) To deprive.
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