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Definition of Despatch
1. Noun. An official report (usually sent in haste).
Terms within: Dateline
Generic synonyms: Account, News Report, Report, Story, Write Up
Derivative terms: Dispatch
2. Verb. Send away towards a designated goal. "They won't despatch the story "
Generic synonyms: Send, Ship, Transport
Specialized synonyms: Bundle Off, Route
Derivative terms: Dispatch, Dispatcher
3. Noun. The property of being prompt and efficient. ; "It was done with dispatch"
Generic synonyms: Celerity, Quickness, Rapidity, Rapidness, Speediness
Derivative terms: Dispatch, Expeditious, Expeditious
4. Noun. Killing a person or animal.
Generic synonyms: Kill, Killing, Putting To Death
Derivative terms: Dispatch, Dispatch
5. Noun. The act of sending off something.
Generic synonyms: Departure, Going, Going Away, Leaving
Specialized synonyms: Reshipment
Derivative terms: Ship
Definition of Despatch
1. n. & v. Same as Dispatch.
Definition of Despatch
1. Noun. (alternative form of dispatch) ¹
2. Verb. (alternative form of dispatch) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Despatch
1. to dispatch [v -ED, -ING, -ES] - See also: dispatch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Despatch
Literary usage of Despatch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Egypt by Evelyn Baring Cromer (1908)
"In making the proposals contained in that despatch, it may be desirable that ...
Mr LORD—It may be advisable that in a separate despatch I should offer some ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"But the despatch had no power to bind the steamer line for any risks incurred
... The White Star Line paid the despatch no commission or other compensation. ..."
3. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1868)
""despatch about Wilson just received. Hood is now crossing Coosa river, twelve miles
... For a full understanding of the plan referred to in this despatch, ..."
4. The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503: The Voyages of the Northmen by Julius E. Olson, Edward Gaylord Bourne (1906)
"The contents of this letter were briefly summarized in a despatch to the Catholic
... The Puebla despatch, which contains nothing not in the Ayala despatch, ..."
5. The Writings of George Washington by George Washington (1892)
"On the same day Wolcott showed one despatch to Pickering, and on the next day to
the Attorney-General, when a decision was reached to summon Washington to ..."
6. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin, and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1887)
"26th of June, addressed a despatch to the Secretary despatch of State on several
matters of military business. He spoke with great satisfaction of the ..."
7. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1880)
"... those who uphold consti- shownthat tutional principles will agree for once
with the cour- did not*0 tiers, will concede that such a despatch as the one ..."
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