Meaning of dispatch | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To send (a shipment) with promptness.
   transitive
2. Rapidness of movement or activity:celerity, expedition, expeditiousness, fleetness, haste, hurry, hustle, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, speed, speediness, swiftness.
3. To send (a person) away hastily.
   transitive
4. a carrier of military dispatches by motor-cycle. rapportryer ساعٍ يَنقُلُ الرَّسائِل العَسْكَرِيَّه على الدَّرّاجَه الناريَّه куриер correio motorizado kurýr der Meldefahrer motorordonans στρατιωτικός αγγελιοφόρος mensajero sidemootorrattur پیام رسان lähetti estafetteשליח मोटरसाइकल से सैनिक चीजें पहुंचाने वाला glasnik, kurir futár kurir sendiboði, hraðboði staffetta, 緊急伝令 전령, 급사(急使) kurjeris kurjers pengirim koeriermotorordinanskurier قاصد correio motorizado curier мотоциклист связи kuriér ku...
5. To send (an important official message) promptly, by means of a diplomat or military officer.
   transitive
6. To relegate to a specific destination or send on specific business. See Synonyms at send1.
7. To send (a journalist) to a place in order to report.
   transitive
8. To complete, transact, or dispose of promptly: dispatch an errand.
9. To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.
   transitive
10. To put to death summarily.
11. To rid; to free.
    transitive
12. The act of sending off, as to a specific destination.
13. To destroy (someone or something) quickly and efficiently.
    transitive
14. Dismissal or rejection of something regarded as unimportant or unworthy of consideration: "[his] breezy dispatch of another Establishment fiction writer" (Christopher Hitchens).
    [his]
15. To defeat
    transitive
16. The act of putting to death.
17. To pass on for further processing, especially via a dispatch table (often with to).
    transitive
18. Speed in performance or movement. See Synonyms at haste.
19. To hurry.
    intransitive, obsolete
20. To deprive.
    obsolete, transitive
21. (also dĭs′păch′)a. A written message, particularly an official communication, sent with speed.
    also

Equivalents

Examples

“The League of One was suddenly exposed and in danger of being hunted by enemies of the salarians. Before any harm could be done, the team mysteriously disappeared.[...]Realizing the threat posed by this rogue outfit, the Special Tasks Group dispatched a team of hunters. When they didn't return, the STG dispatched ten of its brightest operators with broad discretionary powers. Only two returned; they reported no evidence of the League.”

“Scores of foreign journalists have been dispatched to Seoul to report on the growing tensions between the two Koreas and the possibility of war.”

“Yet, ere we put ourselves in arms, dispatch we / The business we have talk'd of.”

“the which company of harvest men, being ready at the day appointed, almost in one fair day dispatcheth all the harvest work.”

“But whā I had cleane diſpatched myſelf of this great charge and taſke, I loked not that I ſhould at any tyme afterwarde have any more to doe with this kynde of writing”

“"And our dogs used to tree the cats on our property here, and we'd dispatch them."”

“So Tyrion hatches one last brilliant scheme in a season full of them, and this one goes exactly as well as all the others, even if it doesn’t look like it at first. He alone takes a meeting with Cersei, in her chambers, with the Mountain ready and waiting to dispatch him.”

“Gareth Southgate's side had little trouble dispatching the side 172nd in the Fifa rankings.”

“These handlers perform any additional checking and processing that may be necessary before and after a message is dispatched to an object. In addition, some message types are handled internally by the kernel[…]”

“prithee, dispatch”

““Proceed, friend Nicolas, and let us dispatch; for, it grows late.””

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