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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Examples of "dispatch" in Sentences
- The dispatch warned of war in the Far East.
- The Hohenzollern crisis and the Ems Dispatch.
- The dispatch was for the surrender of Memphis.
- After the dispatch, the representative disappears.
- The Americans are able to dispatch two of the Tigers.
- The dispatch is to be reproduced by media all around the world.
- The photocopy of the document is dispatched to the user by mail.
- Aaron, why so hateful, why so cutting .... are you back in dispatch?
- Burgoyne refused to divulge the contents of this dispatch to his staff.
- The management acted with dispatch to the suggestions of the CHED panels.
- Dispatch riders placed the sum in the hands of the condottiero overnight.
- The mechanical department then informed the train dispatcher of the emergency.
- And just to close the circle, here is my final dispatch from the campaign trail.
- And another dispatch from the first lady's campaign trail here from our colleague Nia-Malika Henderson
- Any hint of fragility and dispatch is fast and lethal – threatening a chain reaction that could once again bring down the entire financial system.
- She called dispatch as she had done for almost ten years as a Probation and Parole Officer, and identified herself as she had done for almost ten years.
- However, according to a dispatch from the Associated Press, back on the campaign trail on Sunday, Mr. Obama was not offering hugs, but tough words for Mr. McCain:
- The dispatch is notable for the vast fund of information London was able to gather, down to the precise details on what the Japanese infantryman carried in his kit.
- A dispatch from a San Miguel-related mailing list has it that thieves disguising themselves as Telmex employees "fixing the lines" have been gaining entry into homes to steal.
- Quick Quiz: Can you determine what, precisely, is meant by “free will” in this dispatch from a panel at the World Science Festival featuring a psychologist, a neuroscientist, and a philosopher?
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