dispatch
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4.7
- noun
- /dɪˈspætʃ/
- Dispatch reinforcements to all posts immediately.
- dispatch instructions
- a dispatch unit
- first dispatch
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Examples
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After receiving the dispatch, the team quickly prepared to deliver the supplies.
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Company dispatch and the National Guard are the only ones who know we're here.
Fiction book (1998) -
I used to work in dispatch and on the road for thousands of hours.
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And I, I eventually found the largest dispatch firm in the world through a lot of research.
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I called dispatch and they said about an hour... so looks like we're looking at about 40 minutes.
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Dispatch, please alert all units.
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Dispatch, I'm having problems reading you.
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Dispatch received a call from someone named... Suzie.
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EMS units and dispatch need code words for dignitaries and any facilities at which they may be staying.
Academic text (2007) -
Dispatch, this is 1501.
Synonyms
66
2.1
To send goods to a place by ship, truck, or plane
Compounds
- Archaic
1
8.3
A person who carries messages for the army by motorcycle often during war
- Formal
1
8.8
A locked box used to carry and keep important government papers like speeches
- Formal
A small lockable case for carrying important papers like letters or legal documents
How Fast
9
3.3
403
1.0
- Formal
45
6.5
39
4.7
659
1.0
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Etymology
Dispatch originally meant 'send away quickly', so it naturally came to mean the act of sending someone or something to a place for a purpose, like sending a team or a package.