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Dispatch   /dɪspˈætʃ/   Listen
noun
Dispatch  n.  (Written also despatch)  
1.
The act of sending a message or messenger in haste or on important business.
2.
Any sending away; dismissal; riddance. "To the utter dispatch of all their most beloved comforts."
3.
The finishing up of a business; speedy performance, as of business; prompt execution; diligence; haste. "Serious business, craving quick dispatch." "To carry his scythe... with a sufficient dispatch through a sufficient space."
4.
A message dispatched or sent with speed; especially, an important official letter sent from one public officer to another; often used in the plural; as, a messenger has arrived with dispatches for the American minister; naval or military dispatches.
5.
A message transmitted by telegraph. (Modern)
Dispatch boat, a swift vessel for conveying dispatches; an advice boat.
Dispatch box, a box for carrying dispatches; a box for papers and other conveniences when traveling.
Synonyms: Haste; hurry; promptness; celerity; speed. See Haste.


verb
Dispatch  v. t.  (past & past part. dispatched; pres. part. dispatching)  (Written also despatch)  
1.
To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform. "Ere we put ourselves in arms, dispatch we The business we have talked of." "(The) harvest men... almost in one fair day dispatcheth all the harvest work."
2.
To rid; to free. (Obs.) "I had clean dispatched myself of this great charge."
3.
To get rid of by sending off; to send away hastily. "Unless dispatched to the mansion house in the country... they perish among the lumber of garrets."
4.
To send off or away; particularly applied to sending off messengers, messages, letters, etc., on special business, and implying haste.
5.
To send out of the world; to put to death. "The company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords."
Synonyms: To expedite; hasten; speed; accelerate; perform; conclude; finish; slay; kill.


Dispatch  v. i.  To make haste; to conclude an affair; to finish a matter of business. "They have dispatched with Pompey."





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"Dispatch" Quotes from Famous Books



... territories, and even when I should have quitted them. 'For,' said he, 'the moment the death of the mollah bashi is known, and as soon as the chief executioner shall have discovered the loss of his horse, he will not fail to dispatch officers throughout the country in search of you, and you are too conspicuous a character now not to be easily traced. It will be much better for you to take refuge with me, who will not fail to avert any inquiries, until the event ...
— The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan • James Morier
... the dark corner and walked evenly toward the center where Kohlvihr stood, his aides about him—poor old Doltmir standing apart and distressed. The moment had come for the order to be given. Kohlvihr turned to a dispatch rider at the door—a door made ...
— Red Fleece • Will Levington Comfort
... particular theme we are discussing, it is not really so. Like a dark thunder-cloud on the horizon the menace of Japanese action has rendered frank Chinese co-operation, even in such a simple matter as war-measures against Germany, a thing of supreme difficulty. The mere rumour that China might dispatch an Expeditionary Force to Mesopotamia was sufficient to send the host of unofficial Japanese agents in Peking scurrying in every direction and insisting that if the Chinese did anything at all they should limit themselves to sending troops to Russia, where they would ...
— The Fight For The Republic in China • Bertram Lenox Putnam Weale
... short by a lumbering noise, which proved to be the advance of the expected vehicle, pressing forward with all the dispatch to which the broken-winded jades that drew it could possibly be urged. With ineffable pleasure, Mrs. Macleuchar saw her tormentor deposited in the leathern convenience; but still, as it was driving ...
— The Antiquary, Complete • Sir Walter Scott
... he had lost an important battle: when it was in his power to beat the enemies in detail, and render them unable to undertake the siege of Mons, or any other siege. If Boufflers was indignant at this, he was still more indignant at what happened afterwards. In the first dispatch he sent to the King he promised to send another as soon as possible giving full details, with propositions as to how the vacancies which had occurred in the army might be filled up. On the very evening he sent off his second dispatch, he received intelligence that the King had already ...
— The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, Complete • Duc de Saint-Simon


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