Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. Variant of dispatch.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To deliver; rid; free; disentangle; discharge: usually reflexive.
- To send to a destination; cause to start for or go to an appointed place; put under way: usually implying urgent importance or haste as to purpose, or promptness and regularity as to time: as, to despatch a messenger or a letter asking for assistance; to despatch an envoy to a foreign court; to despatch a ship.
- To transact or dispose of speedily or with promptness; attend to; bring to an end; accomplish: as, to despatch business.
- To finish or make an end of by promptly putting to death; kill.
- Synonyms To hasten off.
- To make short work of, dispose of (quickly).
- Slay, Murder, etc. See kill.
- To go expeditiously; be quick.
- To conclude or dispose of an affair or matter; make a finish.
- n. A sending off or away; a prompt or regular starting or transmission, as of some one on an errand or a commission, or of a ship, freight, etc., on its prescribed course or toward its destination: as, the despatch of the mails; the despatch of troops to the front.
- n. A sending away or getting rid of something; a putting out of the way, or a doing away with; riddance; dismissal.
- n. Prompt or expeditious performance; complete or regular execution or transaction; the act of bringing to a conclusion.
- n. Speed; haste; expedition; due diligence: as, repairing done with neatness and despatch; go, but make despatch.
- n. Conduct; management.
- n. A written message sent or to be sent with expedition: as, a telegraphic despatch.
- n. An official letter relating to public affairs, as from a minister to an ambassador or a commander, or from the latter to the former, usually conveyed by a special messenger or bearer of despatches.
- n. A conveyance or an organization for the expeditious transmission of merchandise, money, etc.: as, the Merchants' Despatch; it was sent by despatch.
- n. A decisive answer.
Wiktionary
- adj. holding despatches
- n. Alternative form of dispatch. (see also Wikipedia's Mentioned in Despatches)
- v. Alternative form of dispatch.
GNU Webster's 1913
- Same as dispatch.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the property of being prompt and efficient
- n. an official report (usually sent in haste)
- n. the act of sending off something
- n. killing a person or animal
- v. send away towards a designated goal
Examples
“Government had empowered him to do; and, though the "secret and most confidential" despatch of March 22nd cautioned him against narrowing too much the ground of a rupture, if a rupture should still occur, yet three days later, and _after the receipt of this despatch_, he signed the terms of peace with Joseph Bonaparte, and two days later with the other signatory Powers. [”
“Head notes that the first mention in the written record of the use of potatoes in Newfoundland appears in a 1754 despatch from the governor to the Colonial Office. back”
“A despatch from the stadium stating that the Exhibition was open was sent to every part of the British Empire.”
“And he has done it right along, for example, on the Ypres-Peronne road last year that was absolutely and directly shot up where the Australians were! today's despatch is another piece of evidence added to the thousands we already have showing how unfitted the Hun is to dominate the world, and how we must keep on until he is absolutely smashed.”
“The latter presented him with another despatch from the prince of Wales.”
“The whole conduct of Tatnai, as well as the general tone of his despatch, is marked by a sound discretion and prudent moderation, free from any party bias, and evincing a desire only to do his duty.”
“The following despatch is from General Sheridan himself, dated the 20th ult., the day after the battle: --”
“The next despatch is from Earl Russell to Lord Lyons, stating the outrage on the British flag, and hoping that the act was committed without instructions from the Federal Government, as that Government must be aware that Great Britain cannot allow such an affront to pass without reparation.”
“The Earl's despatch is calm and terse, but it condenses the situation with too much felicity to make it exactly pleasant reading in the North.”
“It is asserted that his departure took place in consequence of an urgent despatch from the Washington Cabinet.”
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