happy dispatch
- noun
- Archaic
:
buena noticia
- The director delivered a happy dispatch to the staff about the company's performance.
Examples
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After weeks of waiting, they finally received a happy dispatch from their overseas partners.
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The team sent a happy dispatch after the successful event.
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It was a rare pleasure to hear a happy dispatch in the morning briefing.
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We received a happy dispatch from the charity today.
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After weeks of waiting, they finally received a happy dispatch from their overseas partners.
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It was a rare pleasure to hear a happy dispatch in the morning briefing.
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The director delivered a happy dispatch to the staff about the company's performance.
Synonyms
Antonyms
How Positive
- Archaic
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a message conveying good news' is directly derivable from combining 'happy' (positive, glad) with 'dispatch' (message/report). This is a regular adjective + noun compositional pattern with no idiomatic shift, and similar constructions occur in other languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The noun happy dispatch may come from the older use of dispatch to mean a quick message sent by soldiers or reporters. When that message carried happy news, people called it a happy dispatch, so today it means a message giving 'good news'.