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Dispatch   /dɪspˈætʃ/   Listen
Dispatch

noun
(Written also despatch)
1.
An official report (usually sent in haste).  Synonyms: communique, despatch.
2.
The act of sending off something.  Synonyms: despatch, shipment.
3.
The property of being prompt and efficient.  Synonyms: despatch, expedition, expeditiousness.
4.
Killing a person or animal.  Synonym: despatch.
verb
(past & past part. dispatched; pres. part. dispatching)  (Written also despatch)
1.
Send away towards a designated goal.  Synonyms: despatch, send off.
2.
Complete or carry out.  Synonyms: complete, discharge.
3.
Kill intentionally and with premeditation.  Synonyms: bump off, hit, murder, off, polish off, remove, slay.
4.
Dispose of rapidly and without delay and efficiently.
5.
Kill without delay.



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"Dispatch" Quotes from Famous Books



... extract from Governor Martin's dispatch to the British Secretary of State, dated 30th of June, 1775, as found in Wheeler's "Historical Sketches," will now be given, which cannot be viewed in any other light than that of disinterested evidence. The Governor proceeds by saying, "the situation in which I find myself at present is indeed, ...
— Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical • C. L. Hunter

... for a private room. He then inquired of the landlord where the telegraph office was and started for it. He wrote a telegram, one to the captain of the Queen and one to the English office of the "New York Herald," Fleet Street, London. The lady operator scanned over the dispatch to London, then closely scrutinized Paul. Seeing her hesitation about accepting the telegram, Paul demanded to know what was the cause of it. "Excuse me, sir," said she, "but we have to be very careful about the nature of the telegrams we send out from here. I must first ...
— The Story of Paul Boyton - Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World • Paul Boyton

... consoling speculations had begun to appear in the press of the allied countries when the vast German offensive had thus become plainly revealed and had demonstrated its driving force. A Petrograd dispatch to the London "Morning Post" on the 15th of July, 1915, said of the German plan that it was to catch the Russian armies like a nut between nut crackers, that the two fronts moving up from north and south were intended to meet ...
— The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of VIII) - History of the European War from Official Sources • Various

... oh, the bell rings to breakfast. Brother Giuliano, I pray you go in and bear my wife company: I'll but give order to my servants for the dispatch of some business, and come to you presently. [EXIT GIU., ENTER COB.] What, Cob! our maids will have you by the back (i'faith) For coming so late ...
— Every Man In His Humour • Ben Jonson

... hour for this so-called breakfast, which is a phase of social entertaining reserved for the "leisure class," or only at odd intervals possible to people of active pursuits. The morning hours are precious to the hurried man of business, and the care-environed housekeeper; and "promptness and dispatch" is the motto of the ...
— Etiquette • Agnes H. Morton


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