Dictionary Definition
dispatch
Noun
1 an official report (usually sent in haste)
[syn: despatch,
communique]
3 the property of being prompt and efficient; "it
was done with dispatch" [syn: despatch, expedition, expeditiousness]
4 killing a person or animal [syn: despatch]
Verb
3 kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The
mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered" [syn: murder, slay, hit, bump off,
polish
off, remove]
4 dispose of rapidly and without delay and
efficiently; "He dispatched the task he was assigned"
5 kill without delay; "the traitor was dispatched
by the conspirators"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Alternative spellings
- despatch U.K.
Etymology
rfc Etymology is a messFrom Spanish despachar or Italian dispacciare,
from Provençal despachar "to get rid of", from Middle French
despeechier "to set free", from Old French
Verb
- To send a shipment with promptness.
- To send an important official message sent by a diplomat or military officer with promptness
- To hurry
- To deprive.
- To destroy quickly and efficiently
- To pass on for further processing, esp. via a dispatch table (computing, often with to)
Synonyms
Translations
To hurry
- Spanish: despachar
To defeat
- Spanish: despachar
To deprive
To destroy quickly and efficiently
- Finnish: tappaa
- Spanish: despacharse
Noun
- 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 getting rid of something quickly
- A mission by an emergency response service, typically attend to an emergency in the field.
- A dismissal.
Translations
A message sent quickly
The act of dispatching
A dismissal
Translations to be checked
Extensive Definition
A dispatch or dispatches can refer to:
- Dispatch (logistics), a procedure in logistics
- Dispatch (band), an American jam band
- Dispatches (TV series), a documentary show on Channel 4 in the UK
- Dispatches (radio program), a Canadian radio program
- Dispatches (book), a book by Michael Herr about the Vietnam War
- Dynamic dispatch, a computer programming technique
- Dispatch News Service, a news agency
- Dispatcher Jeep, the iconic Postal Jeep used by the U.S. Postal Service
- Citroën Jumpy (formerly known as the Citroën Dispatch in the UK), a small van
See also
- The Dispatch
- Dispatcher
- Dispatched, a Swedish death metal band
- Despatch
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accelerate, accomplish, accomplished
fact, accomplishment, account, achieve, achievement, acknowledgment, acquaintance, address, administration, advice, agility, air speed, air-express,
airfreight, airmail, alacrity, annihilate, announcement, answer, assassinate, assassination, attain, attainment, bane, bereave of life, billet, blood, bloodletting, bloodshed, blue book, braining, briefing, briskness, bulletin, bump off, bundle, bury, business letter, bustle, carry away, carry off,
carrying out, celerity,
chit, chloroform, commission, communication, communique, compass, complete, completion, conclude, conduct, consign, consume, consummate, consummation, convey, cope with, crowd, cut down, cut off, data, datum, deal with, dealing death,
decisiveness,
deprive of life, destroy, destruction, destruction of
life, devour, directory, discharge, disposal, dispose of, do, do away with, do for, do in, do
the job, do the trick, do to death, document, down, drive on, drop a letter, eat
up, effect, effectuate, effectuation, eliminate, embark, embassy, enact, enactment, end, enlightenment, epistle, erase, euthanasia, evidence, execute, execution, expedite, expedition, expeditiousness,
export, express, exterminate, extermination, facts, factual information, fait
accompli, familiarization,
fastness, favor, fetch, finish, finish off, flight, flit, flow of blood, flurry, forward, freight, fruition, fulfill, fulfillment, gen, general information, get, get away with, get done, get
down, get through, goodwill, gore, ground speed, guidebook, gun down, handle, handling, handout, hard information,
haste, hasten, hasten on, hie on,
hit, hurry, hurry along, hurry on,
hurry up, hustle, hustle
up, ice, immediacy, immediateness, immolate, immolation, implementation,
incidental information, info, information, ingest, instantaneousness,
instruction,
intelligence,
kill, killing, knock off, knots, knowledge, lapidation, launch into
eternity, lay, letter, light, lightning speed, line, liquidate, lynch, mail, make, make away with, manage, management, martyr, martyrdom, martyrization, martyrize, mention, mercy killing, message, miles per hour, mission
accomplished, missive,
murder, news item,
nimbleness, note, notice, notification, perform, performance, perpetration, piece, pneumatogram, poison, poisoning, polish off,
post, precipitate, precipitation, presentation, press, produce, production, promotional
material, promptitude, promptness, proof, publication, publicity, punctuality, punctualness, purge, push, push on, push through, put
away, put down, put to death, put to sleep, quicken, quickness, railroad through,
rapidity, readiness, realization, realize, release, remit, remove from life, reply, report, rescript, ritual killing,
ritual murder, round pace, route, rpm, rub out, rush, rush along, rustle, sacrifice, send, send away, send forth, send
off, sharpness,
ship, shooting, sidelight, silence, slaughter, slay, slaying, smartness, snappiness, speed, speed along, speed up,
speediness, spryness, spur, stampede, starve, statement, stoning, story, succeed, success, summariness, surround, swallow, swift rate, swiftness, take care of, take
down, take in, take life, take off, taking of life, telegram, the dope, the goods,
the know, the scoop, transact, transaction, transmission, transmit, tuck in, turn the
trick, urge, velocity, waste, whip, whip along, white book, white
paper, word, work, work out, zap