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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dispatch \Dis*patch"\ (?; 224), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dispatched; p. pr. & vb. n. Dispatching.] [OF. despeechier, F. d['e]p[^e]cher; prob. from pref. des- (L. dis-) + (assumed) LL. pedicare to place obstacles in the way, fr. L. pedica fetter, fr. pes, pedis, foot. See Foot, and cf. Impeach, Despatch.] [Written also despatch.]
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To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.
Ere we put ourselves in arms, dispatch we The business we have talked of.
--Shak.[The] harvest men . . . almost in one fair day dispatcheth all the harvest work.
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To rid; to free. [Obs.]
I had clean dispatched myself of this great charge.
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To get rid of by sending off; to send away hastily.
Unless dispatched to the mansion house in the country . . . they perish among the lumber of garrets.
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To send off or away; -- particularly applied to sending off messengers, messages, letters, etc., on special business, and implying haste.
Even with the speediest expedition I will dispatch him to the emperor's cou??.
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To send out of the world; to put to death.
The company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords.
--Ezek. xxiii. 47.Syn: To expedite; hasten; speed; accelerate; perform; conclude; finish; slay; kill.
Dispatch \Dis*patch"\, v. i. To make haste; to conclude an affair; to finish a matter of business.
They have dispatched with Pompey.
--Shak.
Dispatch \Dis*patch"\, n. [Cf. OF. despeche, F. d['e]p[^e]che. See Dispatch, v. t.] [Written also despatch.]
The act of sending a message or messenger in haste or on important business.
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Any sending away; dismissal; riddance.
To the utter dispatch of all their most beloved comforts.
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The finishing up of a business; speedy performance, as of business; prompt execution; diligence; haste.
Serious business, craving quick dispatch.
--Shak.To carry his scythe . . . with a sufficient dispatch through a sufficient space.
--Paley. A message dispatched or sent with speed; especially, an important official letter sent from one public officer to another; -- often used in the plural; as, a messenger has arrived with dispatches for the American minister; naval or military dispatches.
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A message transmitted by telegraph. [Modern]
Dispatch boat, a swift vessel for conveying dispatches; an advice boat.
Dispatch box, a box for carrying dispatches; a box for papers and other conveniences when traveling.
Syn: Haste; hurry; promptness; celerity; speed. See Haste.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1510s, "to send off in a hurry," from a word in Spanish (despachar "expedite, hasten") or Italian (dispacciare "to dispatch"). For first element, see dis-. The exact source of the second element has been proposed as Vulgar Latin *pactare "to fasten, fix" or *pactiare, or as Latin -pedicare "to entrap" (from Latin pedica "shackle;" see impeach); and the Spanish and Italian words seem to be related to (perhaps opposites of) Old Provençal empachar "impede." See OED for full discussion. Meaning "to get rid of by killing" is attested from 1520s. Related: Dispatched; dispatching. As a noun, from 1540s, originally "dismissal;" sense of "a message sent speedily" is first attested 1580s.
Wiktionary
n. 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. vb. 1 To send a shipment with promptness. 2 To send an important official message sent by a diplomat or military officer with promptness. 3 To send a journalist to a place in order to report
WordNet
v. send away towards a designated goal [syn: despatch, send off]
complete or carry out; "discharge one's duties" [syn: discharge, complete]
kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered" [syn: murder, slay, hit, bump off, polish off, remove]
dispose of rapidly and without delay and efficiently; "He dispatched the task he was assigned"
kill without delay; "the traitor was dispatched by the conspirators"
n. an official report (usually sent in haste) [syn: despatch, communique]
the property of being prompt and efficient; "it was done with dispatch" [syn: despatch, expedition, expeditiousness]
killing a person or animal [syn: despatch]
Wikipedia
Dispatch EP is an EP that was released by Dispatch on May 17, 2011. It is the band's first studio record in over ten years and was followed by the full-length album Circles Around the Sun in 2012. Upon its release, the EP shot to #2 on the iTunes album charts. The track Melon Bend has been released for free download via the band's website and was performed live on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on April 27, 2011.
Dispatch or dispatches may refer to:
In literature
- Daily Dispatch, a South African newspaper
- Dispatches (book), a 1977 book by Michael Herr about the Vietnam War
- dispatches (magazine), a magazine edited by Gary Knight and Mort Rosenblum
In radio and television
- Dispatches (radio program), a Canadian radio program aired on CBC Radio One
- Dispatches (TV series) (since 1987), a British documentary show broadcast on Channel 4
In vehicles
- Citroën Dispatch (known as the Citroën Jumpy in continental Europe), a small van
- Dispatch (sternwheeler), a steamboat in Oregon, United States, in the early 20th century
- Dispatcher Jeep, the iconic postal Jeep used by the U.S. Postal Service
In other uses
- Dispatch, Kansas, an unincorporated community
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Dispatch (band), an American jam band
- Dispatch (EP)
- Dispatch (logistics), a procedure in logistics
- Dynamic dispatch, a computer-programming technique
- Dispatch News Service, a news agency
Dispatch is an American indie/ roots band. The band consists of Brad Corrigan ( vocals, drums, guitar, percussion, and harmonica), Pete Francis Heimbold (vocals, bass, and guitar), and Chad Urmston (vocals, guitar, bass, and percussion).
The band, which is based in the Boston area, was originally active from 1996 until 2002. The members then announced a hiatus, which would ultimately last for almost a decade; during this period, the band came together for reunion concerts in Boston (2004), New York City (2007), and Washington, D.C. (2009). The hiatus ended in the beginning of 2011, when the band announced a national tour. In May of the same year, Dispatch released an EP containing six new songs, their first all-new release since 2000. The band released both their first studio album in over a decade, Circles Around the Sun, and an iTunes session in 2012 and toured North America that summer in support of the album. On April 22, 2013, Dispatch announced a double-disc live album called "Ain't No Trip to Cleveland Vol. 1," released on June 4, 2013.
Dispatch is a procedure for assigning employees (workers) or vehicles to customers. Industries that dispatch include taxicabs, couriers, emergency services, as well as home and commercial services such as maid services, plumbing, HVAC, pest control and electricians.
With vehicle dispatching, clients are matched to vehicles according to the order in which clients called and the proximity of vehicles to each client's pick-up location. Telephone operators take calls from clients, then either enter the client's information into a computer or write it down and give it to a dispatcher. In some cases, calls may be assigned a priority by the call-taker. Priority calls may jump the queue of pending calls. In the first scenario, a central computer then communicates with the mobile data terminal located in each vehicle (see computer assisted dispatch); in the second, the dispatcher communicates with the driver of each vehicle via two-way radio.
With home or commercial service dispatching, customers usually schedule services in advance and the dispatching occurs the morning of the scheduled service. Depending on the type of service, workers are dispatched individually or in teams of two or more. Dispatchers have to coordinate worker availability, skill, travel time and availability of parts. The skills required of a dispatcher are greatly enhanced with the use of computer dispatching software (see computer aided call handling).
Usage examples of "dispatch".
From the flow of dispatches arriving at the War Office in Philadelphia, Adams was more aware of the situation than anyone in Congress and he was miserable, thinking about the consequences of a defeat at New York.
At the same time, a dispatch from the Foreign Minister went off to Philadelphia directing La Luzerne to see what could be done to have Adams recalled.
IN LATE SEPTEMBER, John Jay dispatched an urgent note to John Adams from Paris to report that the British emissary Richard Oswald had received a formal commission to treat with the United States on the matter of peace.
Promptly the next morning, Monday, March 5, Adams sent the uncoded dispatch to Congress.
The last of the dispatches was not entirely decoded until March 12, and for several days Adams struggled over what to do, listening to advice and scribbling his thoughts on paper as his mood swung one way then another.
Losing no time, he dispatched a letter to Adams before the ship docked.
LATE IN THE DAY, August 5, Adams received a dispatch from Pickering containing a letter from Talleyrand dated May 12, assuring that the American envoys would be received with all appropriate respect.
In mid-1991, Bin Ladin dispatched a band of supporters to the northern Afghanistan border to assist the Tajikistan Islamists in the ethnic conflicts that had been boiling there even before the Central Asian departments of the Soviet Union became independent states.
They are to undergo hypnotic foretreatment on board dispatch spacer, and hypnotic aftertreatment upon return.
A courier had been dispatched from Hong Kong twelve hours ago with secret orders to murder Sultan Aji Abbas and his family.
I made use of the time to dictate some dispatches, and Antinous stretched out at my feet.
The sooner he dispatched the letter, the sooner he could be done with the entire uncomfortable situation at Appleton Manor.
One might even - knowing the importance that the Mercatoria attaches to reconnecting all the many, many systems which have been without Arteria access all these millennia - wonder why the expedition from Zenerre to Ulubis with a new portal was dispatched with such alacrity, given the arguably still greater claims that more populous, more classically strategically important and more at-the-time obviously threatened systems might have had upon the resources and expertise of our esteemed colleagues in the Engineering faculty.
Shortly after he awoke the next morning, he received a request from the astrogator via Ballmin, chief of the planetologists, to dispatch his entire material to the main laboratory.
I immediately dispatched a messenger, riding at full tilt, conveying to Zeno my hearty thanks and my auths of loyalty, and asking him to send legionaries to relieve me of my stewardship of Singidunum.