dispatch🔊

To send (a shipment) with promptness.

To send (a person) away hastily.

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

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

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

To rid; to free.

To destroy (someone or something) quickly and efficiently. +

To defeat

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

(obsolete) To hurry.

(obsolete) To deprive.

A message sent quickly, as a shipment, a prompt settlement of a business, or an important official message sent by a diplomat, government official, military officer, etc.

The act of doing something quickly.

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

(computing) The passing on of a message for further processing, especially through a dispatch table.

(obsolete) A dismissal.