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What (who) is Dispatch - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Dispatches; Dispatch (disambiguation)
dispatch
n., v. a.
See despatch.
dispatch
I
n.
news item
message
1) to file; send a dispatch
2) to dateline a dispatch
3) a dispatch from; to
4) a dispatch that + clause (we read her dispatch that war had been declared)
5) (misc.) (BE; mil.) mentioned in dispatches (for bravery in combat)
promptness
6) with great dispatch
II
v. (D; tr.) to dispatch from; to (the message was dispatched from battalion headquarters to each company)
dispatch
(dispatches, dispatching, dispatched)
Note: in BRIT, also use 'despatch'
1.
If you dispatch someone to a place, you send them there for a particular reason. (FORMAL)
He dispatched scouts ahead...
The Italian government was preparing to dispatch 4,000 soldiers to search the island.
= send
VERB: V n adv/prep, V n to-inf
•
Dispatch is also a noun.
The despatch of the task force is purely a contingency measure.
N-UNCOUNT: usu N of n
2.
If you dispatch a message, letter, or parcel, you send it to a particular person or destination. (FORMAL)
The victory inspired him to dispatch a gleeful telegram to Roosevelt...
Free gifts are dispatched separately so please allow 28 days for delivery.
= send
VERB: V n prep/adv, be V-ed, also V n
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Dispatch is also a noun.
We have 125 cases ready for dispatch.
N-UNCOUNT
3.
A dispatch is a special report that is sent to a newspaper or broadcasting organization by a journalist who is in a different town or country.
...this despatch from our West Africa correspondent.
= bulletin
N-COUNT
4.
A dispatch is a message or report that is sent, for example, by army officers or government officials to their headquarters.
I was carrying dispatches from the ambassador.
N-COUNT
5.
To dispatch a person or an animal means to kill them. (OLD-FASHIONED)
The fox takes his chance with a pack of hounds which may catch him and despatch him immediately.
VERB: V n
Examples of use of Dispatch
1. More business news Economic dispatch Ethical money
2. Louis Post–Dispatch Center for Investigative Reporting
3. More business news Economic dispatch Money Observer
4. The dispatch, however, is increasingly unpopular.
5. "We‘re moving with a great deal of dispatch," he said.