2syllables
despatches
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Definitions ofdespatches
1noun
- A message sent quickly, as a shipment, a prompt settlement of a business, or an important official message sent by a diplomat, or military officer.
- The act of doing something quickly.
Example: "We must act with dispatch in this matter."
- A mission by an emergency response service, typically attend to an emergency in the field.
- The passing on of a message for further processing, especially via a dispatch table.
- A dismissal.
1verb
- To send (a shipment) with promptness.
- To send (a person) away hastily.
- To send (an important official message) promptly, by means of a diplomat or military officer.
- To send (a journalist) to a place in order to report.
- To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.
- To rid; to free.
- To destroy quickly and efficiently.
- To pass on for further processing, especially via a dispatch table (often with to).
- To hurry.
- To deprive.
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