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dispatch
has definitions from the fields of writing,news,transportation,criminal law
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[ verb ] (transportation) send away towards a designated goal
Used in print (The Sun, [Baltimore]...)Councilman_William_D._Schaefer ( D. , Fifth ) said in a letter to Mayor_Grady that plowing and salting crews should be dispatched earlier in storms and should be kept on the job longer than they were last month . (Robert Wallace, "This Is the Way It Came About"...)The Belgian government decided to act , and on July 10 dispatched paratroops to the Congo . He quickly called_on Ghana , Tunisia , Morocco , Guinea and Mali , which dispatched troops within hours . Meanwhile Russia took every opportunity to meddle in the Congo , sending Lumumba equipment for his `` wars '' , dispatching `` technicians '' and even threatening , on_occasion , to intervene openly . (St. Louis Post-Dispatch,...)Gen._Maxwell_Taylor 's statement in Saigon that he is `` very_much encouraged '' about the chances of the pro-Western government of Viet_Nam turning_back Communist guerrilla attacks comes_close to an announcement that he will not recommend dispatching United_States troops to bolster the Vietnamese Army . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (writing,news) an official report (usually sent in haste)
Synonyms Used in print ("Editorials"...)Another piece of evidence appears in a dispatch from Bonn in the Observer ( London ) . (Stephen Longstreet, Eagles Where I Walk....)He would send_on by trusted messenger the dispatches with their electrifying news . He had sent the dispatches downtown to the proper people and had slept . |
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[ noun ] the act of sending off something
Used in print (Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)Since the Supreme_Court 's decision of that year this is more doubtful ; and if a poll had been taken immediately following the dispatch of troops to Little_Rock I believe the majority would have been for the Old_South . Related terms |
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[ verb ] complete or carry out
Examples "discharge one's duties" Used in print (Marvin Schiller, "The Sheep's in the Meadow,"...)Then epistolatory me was a foreign correspondent dispatching exciting cables and communiques , full of dash and wit and glamor , quoting from the books I read , imitating the grand styles of the authors recommended by a teacher in whose special , after_school class I was enrolled . Related terms |
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[ verb ] dispose of rapidly and without delay and efficiently
Examples "He dispatched the task he was assigned" Related terms |
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[ verb ] kill without delay
Examples "the traitor was dispatched by the conspirators" Related terms |
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[ noun ] the property of being prompt and efficient
Synonyms Examples "it was done with dispatch" Related terms |
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