Word Finder - dispatches

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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.

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The act of doing something quickly.

example

We must act with dispatch in this matter.

synonyms

• haste
• hurry
• rapidity

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A mission by an emergency response service, typically attend to an emergency in the field.

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The passing on of a message for further processing, especially via a dispatch table.

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A dismissal.

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To send (a shipment) with promptness.

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To send (a person) away hastily.

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To send (an important official message) promptly, by means of a diplomat or military officer.

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To send (a journalist) to a place in order to report.

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To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.

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To rid; to free.

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To destroy quickly and efficiently.

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To pass on for further processing, especially via a dispatch table (often with to).

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To hurry.

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To deprive.

Beginning with the battle of Borodino, from which time his disagreement with those about him began, he alone said that the battle of Borodino was a victory, and repeated this both verbally and in his dispatches and reports up to the time of his death.

Recent dispatches include posts on a possible smacking ban, the problems of domestic violence and the brilliance of Tory women.

In 2005, Anderson Cooper published his memoirs in the book, Dispatches from the Edge, which describes his experiences reporting from war-torn and disaster-ridden cities.

In the same year he accompanied Albert Gallatin, as his secretary, to Russia, and in 1814 returned to the United States as the bearer of important dispatches from the American peace commissioners at Ghent.

The attempts to implicate him in corrupt transactions were not successful; but his political opponents endeavoured to make capital in subsequent campaigns, out of the "Cipher Dispatches."

From there two men were sent home with dispatches via Siberia, but have not been heard of again.

Despite his apparently delicate build Prince Andrew could endure physical fatigue far better than many very muscular men, and on the night of the battle, having arrived at Krems excited but not weary, with dispatches from Dokhturov to Kutuzov, he was sent immediately with a special dispatch to Brunn.

In this, his work was the summarizing and inditing of the official letters and dispatches of the Holy See, combined with the functions of confidential secretary.