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/dɪspˈætʃ bɑks/ Listen

noun

Dispatch n. (Written also despatch)

The act of sending a message or messenger in haste or on important business.

Any sending away; dismissal; riddance. "To the utter dispatch of all their most beloved comforts."

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."

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.

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.

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Etymology of 'Dispatch box'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dispatch box" Quotes from Famous Books

... collect the papers that were scattered about the big drawing-table, sorting them out and folding them up and then taking other papers and plans from the drawers and packing them into a little black dispatch box. ...

— The World Peril of 1910 • George Griffith

... Then he pushed the dispatch box across the table. The biologist rose and turned back the lid of the box. The contents remained as Sir Godfrey's dead son had left them; a limp leather diary, an automatic pistol of some American make, a few glass tubes of ...

— The Sleuth of St. James's Square • Melville Davisson Post

... have discovered a secret hiding-place," Miss Jencks explained succinctly, and then they both stared at me while I drew out from a good arm's reach a tin dispatch box, thick with dust, a foot long and half as wide. I wiped the dust from its surface, and on the cover we read (for Roger and Miss Jencks were at my elbow now, I assure you!) written neatly with some sharp instrument on the black japanned surface, the name Lockwood Lee Prynne. ...

— Margarita's Soul - The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty • Ingraham Lovell

... few minutes with a dispatch box in his hand, which he laid on a table beside her. "In this you will find Philippa Harford's letters, and also a number written by Francis when they were engaged. You had better read them. You have a right to do so. My grandmother put them all together and gave them to me. Poor old soul, I wonder ...

— East of the Shadows • Mrs. Hubert Barclay

... a few minutes with a dispatch box in his hand, which he laid on a table beside her. "In this you will find Philippa Harford's letters, and also a number written by Francis when they were engaged. You had better read them. You have a right to do so. My grandmother put them ...

— East of the Shadows • Mrs. Hubert Barclay