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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dispatch box
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At private meetings with ministers, as well as at the dispatch box, it did not feel that way last week.
▪ Hence the glass of whisky at the dispatch box rather than mineral water: A premature celebration?
▪ His standing at the dispatch box stays high, but rarely did he intervene during months of Maastricht debate.
▪ It is my first appearance at the dispatch box in my new role, and it could not be a better issue.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dispatch box

Dispatch \Dis*patch"\, n. [Cf. OF. despeche, F. d['e]p[^e]che. See Dispatch, v. t.] [Written also despatch.]

  1. The act of sending a message or messenger in haste or on important business.

  2. Any sending away; dismissal; riddance.

    To the utter dispatch of all their most beloved comforts.
    --Milton.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

WordNet
dispatch box

n. case consisting of an oblong container (usually having a lock) for carrying dispatches or other valuables [syn: dispatch case]

Usage examples of "dispatch box".

Yet the publication was sent routinely to all minesites through the galaxies, and Terl had fished this latest copy out of the incoming dispatch box.

Bazna had taken wax impressions of the keys to the black dispatch box which Sir Hughe kept beside his bed for the secret papers that he liked to pore over late at night.

He started reading from the dispatch box as usual, and by the time they reached the D.

Somewhere in the vaults of Cox and Company, Charing Cross, there is a travel-worn tin dispatch box with my name stenciled upon its battered lid.

The very secret material is carried in a hard-frame dispatch box chained to the man’.

The very secret material is carried in a hard-frame dispatch box chained to the man's left wrist.