Dispatch

/dɪˈspætʃ/ · verb

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

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.

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Word Forms

• dispatches
• dispatching
• dispatched
• depeche
• despatch

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