Dispatch

Quick meaning: Dispatch is a verb meaning (transitive) To send (a shipment) with promptness.

Meaning

(transitive) To send (a shipment) with promptness.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To send (a person) away hastily.
2. (transitive) To send (an important official message) promptly, by means of a diplomat or military officer.
3. (transitive) To send (a journalist) to a place in order to report.
4. (transitive) To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.
5. (transitive) To eat, especially quickly.
6. (transitive) To rid; to free.
7. (transitive) To destroy (someone or something) quickly and efficiently.

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

Word Forms

• dispatches
• dispatching
• dispatched

Synonyms for dispatch

Depending on context, synonyms include send, expedite, destroy, kill, haste, hurry.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include expedition, expeditiousness, hit, send off, remove, despatch.

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