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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



... wish of Sir Redvers Buller to leave his subordinate untrammelled discretion in the management of an operation intrusted to him, was pushed to an extreme, and was maintained, as is plainly evidenced by his own dispatch, after confidence was shaken. The situation was one familiar, on a smaller scale, to every officer who has ever had command. It is difficult at times to draw the line between fussy interference and reasonable superintendence; yet more difficult to determine ...
— Story of the War in South Africa - 1899-1900 • Alfred T. Mahan
... cheapening of the postal, telephone, and telegraph rates, and the introduction of such conveniences as the rural free delivery, so that news and general information can be collected and distributed cheaply and with dispatch. ...
— Commercialism and Journalism • Hamilton Holt
... deportment. This history may be kept upon shelves that are easily accessible. It is true that you will be invited to spend something of a night in a lady's bedroom, but the matter is carried through with circumspection and dispatch. There shall not be ...
— Once Aboard The Lugger • Arthur Stuart-Menteth Hutchinson
... country we have had generals who were especially noted for their dispatch. You know the story of "Sheridan's Ride" in the Shenandoah Valley. His men, thoroughly beaten for the moment, were fleeing before the Southerners, when he suddenly appeared, promptly decided to head them right about, and, by ...
— The True Citizen, How To Become One • W. F. Markwick, D. D. and W. A. Smith, A. B.
... bacon, seems no improbable story. While I amused myself with this wonderful quadruped, I saw it several times confute the vulgar opinion, that bats when down on a flat surface cannot get on the wing again, by rising with great ease from the floor. It ran, I observed, with more dispatch than I was aware of; but in a most ...
— The Natural History of Selborne • Gilbert White


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