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v. Variant of dispatch.

adj. holding despatches

n. Alternative form of dispatch. (see also Wikipedia's Mentioned in Despatches)

v. Alternative form of dispatch.

noun-and-verb. Same as dispatch.

To deliver; rid; free; disentangle; discharge: usually reflexive.

To send to a destination; cause to start for or go to an appointed place; put under way: usually implying urgent importance or haste as to purpose, or promptness and regularity as to time: as, to despatch a messenger or a letter asking for assistance; to despatch an envoy to a foreign court; to despatch a ship.

To transact or dispose of speedily or with promptness; attend to; bring to an end; accomplish: as, to despatch business.

To finish or make an end of by promptly putting to death; kill.

Synonyms To hasten off.

To make short work of, dispose of (quickly).

Slay, Murder, etc. See kill.

To go expeditiously; be quick.

To conclude or dispose of an affair or matter; make a finish.

n. A sending off or away; a prompt or regular starting or transmission, as of some one on an errand or a commission, or of a ship, freight, etc., on its prescribed course or toward its destination: as, the despatch of the mails; the despatch of troops to the front.

n. A sending away or getting rid of something; a putting out of the way, or a doing away with; riddance; dismissal.

n. Prompt or expeditious performance; complete or regular execution or transaction; the act of bringing to a conclusion.

n. Speed; haste; expedition; due diligence: as, repairing done with neatness and despatch; go, but make despatch.

n. Conduct; management.

n. A written message sent or to be sent with expedition: as, a telegraphic despatch.

n. An official letter relating to public affairs, as from a minister to an ambassador or a commander, or from the latter to the former, usually conveyed by a special messenger or bearer of despatches.

n. A conveyance or an organization for the expeditious transmission of merchandise, money, etc.: as, the Merchants' Despatch; it was sent by despatch.

n. A decisive answer.

n. the property of being prompt and efficient

n. an official report (usually sent in haste)

n. the act of sending off something

n. killing a person or animal

v. send away towards a designated goal

"Government had empowered him to do; and, though the "secret and most confidential" despatch of March 22nd cautioned him against narrowing too much the ground of a rupture, if a rupture should still occur, yet three days later, and _after the receipt of this despatch_, he signed the terms of peace with Joseph Bonaparte, and two days later with the other signatory Powers. ["

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