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Raredespatches
The correct spelling is despatches.
How to pronounce despatches
noun
IPA: /dɪsˈpætʃəz/
Say it like: Des-pac-hes
The correct spelling is despatches. 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. For example: "We must act with dispatch in this matter."
Usage Examples
“We must act with dispatch in this matter.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.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.
- 2.The act of doing something quickly.
- 3.A mission by an emergency response service, typically attend to an emergency in the field.
- 4.The passing on of a message for further processing, especially via a dispatch table.
- 5.A dismissal.
verb
- 1.To send (a shipment) with promptness.
- 2.To send (a person) away hastily.
- 3.To send (an important official message) promptly, by means of a diplomat or military officer.
- 4.To send (a journalist) to a place in order to report.
- 5.To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.
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