dispatch
Pronunciation: /dɪˈspæt͡ʃ/
The English word “dispatch” has 17 meanings listed here.
verb
- 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 eat, especially quickly.
- To rid; to free.
- To destroy (someone or something) quickly and efficiently.
- To defeat
- To pass on for further processing, especially via a dispatch table (often with to).
- To hurry.
- To deprive.
noun
- A message sent quickly, as a shipment, a prompt settlement of a business, or an important official message sent by a diplomat, government official, military officer, etc.
- The act of doing something quickly.
- A mission by an emergency response service, typically involving attending to an emergency in the field.
- The passing on of a message for further processing, especially through a dispatch table.
- A dismissal.
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish despachar and/or Italian dispacciare. Further etymology is uncertain. For first element des-, see dis-. Second element probably from either Vulgar Latin *pactāre (“to fasten"”), *pactiare or Latin -pedicāre (“to entrap, shackle”), from pedica, from pēs. Ultimately related to impeach through shared Latin root. The first known use in writing (in the past tense, spelled as…
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More English words
- dispassionate
- dispassionately
- dispassionateness
- dispassioned
- dispatch box
- dispatch case
- dispatch money
- dispatch rider
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