Despatch

Definitions: Despatch

Despatch

Noun

1. An official report (usually sent in haste).

2. The property of being prompt and efficient; "it was done with dispatch".

3. The murder or execution of someone.

4. The act of sending off something.

Verb

1. Send off promptly.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "despatch" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Publishing & Graphic Arts

Shipping

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Despatch

Activity

Nimbleness, agility; smartness, quickness; Adjective: velocity; alacrity, promptitude; despatch, dispatch; expedition; haste; punctuality; (early).

Command

Despatch, dispatch; message, direction, injunction, charge, instructions; appointment, fixture.

Completion

Noun: completion, accomplishment, achievement, fulfillment; performance, execution; despatch, dispatch; consummation, culmination; finish, conclusion; close; (end); terminus; (arrival); winding up; finale, denouement, catastrophe, issue, upshot, result; final touch, last touch, crowning touch, finishing touch, finishing stroke; last finish, coup de grace; crowning of the edifice; coping-stone, keystone; missing link; superstructure, ne plus ultra, work done, fait accompli.

Despatch, dispatch; knock off, finish off, polish off; make short work of; dispose of, set at rest; perform, discharge, fulfill, realize; put in practice, put in force; carry out, carry into effect, carry into execution; make good; be as good as one's word.

Conduct

Verb: transact, execute; despatch, dispatch; proceed with, discharge; carry on, carry through, carry out, carry into effect, put into effect; work out; go through, get through; enact; put into practice; do; officiate.

Correspondence

Noun: correspondence, letter, epistle, note, billet, post card, missive, circular, favor, billet-doux; chit, chitty, letter card, picture post card; postal, card; despatch; dispatch; bulletin, these presents; rescript, rescription; post; (messenger).

Ejection

Verb: give exit, give vent to; let out, give out, pour out, squeeze out, send out; dispatch, despatch; exhale, excern, excrete; embogue; secrete, secern; extravasate, shed, void, evacuation; emit; open the sluices, open the floodgates; turn on the tap; extrude, detrude; effuse, spend, expend; pour forth; squirt, spirt, spurt, spill, slop; perspire; (exude); breathe, blow; (wind).

Food

Verb: eat, feed, fare, devour, swallow, take; gulp, bolt, snap; fall to; despatch, dispatch; discuss; take down, get down, gulp down; lay in, tuck in; lick, pick, peck; gormandize; bite, champ, munch, cranch, craunch, crunch, chew, masticate, nibble, gnaw, mumble.

Haste

Noun: haste, urgency; despatch, dispatch; acceleration, spurt, spirt, forced march, rush, dash; speed, velocity; precipitancy, precipitation, precipitousness; Adjective: impetuosity; brusquerie; hurry, drive, scramble, bustle, fuss, fidget, flurry, flutter, splutter.

Killing

Verb: kill, put to death, slay, shed blood; murder, assassinate, butcher, slaughter, victimize, immolate; massacre; take away life, deprive of life; make away with, put an end to; despatch, dispatch; burke, settle, do for.

News

Word, advice, aviso, message; dispatch, despatch; telegram, cable, marconigram, wire, communication, errand, embassy.

Crosswords: Despatch

The Flying Despatch (1912)

Dr. Brian Pellie and the Secret Despatch (1912)

N.Y. Journal Despatch Yacht 'Buccaneer' (1898)

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Books

• Commando Despatch Rider: From D-Day to Deutschland 1944-45 (reference)

• Courier and Despatch Services [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• Despatch of a dove (reference)

• Despatch on War Operations (Cass Series--Studies in Air Power) (reference)

• Regional Meeting on Power Pool Arrangements and Economical Load Despatch, 13-14 October, 1995, New Delhi (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Despatch (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Merchants' Despatch Transportation Co.Credit: Library of Congress.

U.S.S. Despatch.Credit: Library of Congress.

New cars, Merchants Despatch Transportation Co.Credit: Library of Congress.

Blacksmith shop, Merchants' Despatch Transportation Co. [Company].Credit: Library of Congress.

Machine shop, Merchants' Despatch Transportation Co. [Company].Credit: Library of Congress.

The Woodmill, Merchants' Despatch Transportation Co.Credit: Library of Congress.

Pan-American Exhibition Car. Exhibition Merchants. Despatch Transportation Co.Credit: Library of Congress.

Exchanged (Union) Prisoners on board the liza Hancox [sic] (Colonel Mulford) Despatch boat--Cheering the Stars & Stripes.Credit: Library of Congress.

Taking a despatch bearer near Chancellorsville.Credit: Library of Congress.

David Higgins great play, The secret despatch.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The equipment and personnel necessary to ensure the despatch and transport of the products of the mines and their accessories and subsidiaries, as well as the carriage of workmen and employees, will be provided by the local railway administration of the Basin. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "despatch": despatch clerk ♦ despatch department ♦ despatch goods ♦ despatch note ♦ despatch rider ♦ despatch route ♦ despatch service ♦ reasonable despatch clause ♦ with despatch. Additional references.

Beginning with "despatch": despatch-boat, despatch-box, despatch-case, despatch-riders, despatch-riding.

Albanian

dërgim (consignment, dispatch, expedition, remittance, sending, shipment), dërgoj (cable, consign, delegate, deliver, detach, direct, dispatch, refer, relegate, send, send off, set forth, set off, transmit), largoj (avert, avoid, brush away, brush off, call off, cast out, dislodge, dismiss, dispatch, dispel, divert, eliminate, estrange, freeze out, keep away, keep off, lead off, lift out, pack off, push aside, push away, push off, put off, relegate, remove, seclude, stave off, take away, turn, wean, whiffle), bëj shpejt (dispatch, expedite, tear off), ha (chamfer, consume, demolish, dispatch, eat, eat away, elide, erode, feed, ingest, shark), heq qafe (close out, disembarrass, dispatch, dispense with, dispose of, ditch, doff, dump, make away with oneself, put off), i jap duart (dispatch), i jap goditjen e fundit (dispatch), agjenci transporti mallrash (dispatch), kryej (accomplish, achieve, act, carry out, carry through, commit, discharge, dispatch, do, effect, effectuate, execute, face it out, fill, fulfil, fulfill, perfect, perform, process, prosecute, put through, wage), vrasje (battue, dispatch, homicide, kill, killing, murder, sleep), mbaroj (be over, call it a day, cease, close, decline, die, dispatch, do, drink up, eat up, end, finish, get through, go out, lapse, perish, peter out, spend, surcease, terminate, wind up), mesazh (cable, dispatch, message), nis (begin, break, bring, commence, dispatch, enter, enter on, get, get round, initiate, lead off, open, originate, rise, send, send on, start, take up), nisje (blastoff, commencement, departure, dispatch, farewell, initiation, lift off, offset, outset, parting, sailing, start), njoftim (advertisement, announcement, annunciation, banns, blurb, cry, data, dispatch, information, knowledge, message, news, note, notice, notification, placard, proclamation, report, service, tidings, tip off), përzë (cut out, dispatch, Hunt, oust), shpejtësi (career, celerity, dispatch, flow, haste, legerity, lick, momentum, pace, promptitude, quickness, rapidity, rate, speed, swiftness, tearing hurry, velocity), vras (assassinate, bag, bruise, bump off, damage, dispatch, do away with, drop, finish, finish off, get, hurt, injure, kill, Lynch, make away with oneself, murder, poniard, put the sword, puzzle, shoot, slay, stab, stone to death, waste, zap), informacion (data, dispatch, dope, information, inquiry, light, material). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قتل (assassinate, assassination, bag, butcher, croak, death, dispatch, do in, end, finish, fire, homicide, immolate, kill, killing, knock off, lay out, manslaughter, murder, poleaxe, procure, put down, put to death, shoot, slay, take for a ride), ‏وفد (delegation, deputation, dispatch, legation, mission, send, send off), ‏سرعة (alacrity, blast, career, dispatch, expedition, gait, haste, hastiness, hurry, lick, pace, pizzazz, promptitude, promptness, quickness, rapidity, smartness, speed, spurt, swiftness, tilt, velocity), ‏إيفاد (dispatch, send off), ‏إنجاز (accomplishment, achievement, dispatch, execution, fulfillment, fulfilment, implementation, implementing, performance, realization), ‏إرسال (dispatch, expedition, posting, radio, send, send off, sending away, signalling, transmission), ‏أعدم (be executed, dispatch, execute, guillotine, hang out, put to death, shoot, string up, swing), ‏أرسل قوات (dispatch), ‏أرسل بسرعة (dispatch, rush), ‏رسالة إخبراية (dispatch), ‏رسالة (bill, brief, dispatch, epistle, letter, message, mission, missive, tractate, treatise, writing), ‏بعث (bundle, cast, dispatch, forward, hand, hand over, mission, reanimate, recall, regenerate, regeneration, renaissance, restoration, resurrect, resurrection, rise, risen, rising, send, send in, telegram), ‏برقية (cable, cablegram, dispatch, telegram, telegraph, wire). (various references)

Bulgarian 

изпращане (delegation, dispatch, send off, shipment). (various references)

Chinese 

派遣 (Dispatched, Dispatching). (various references)

Czech

depeše (dispatch), zpráva (account, advice, call, communication, dispatch, intimation, item, message, news, notice, report, statement, tidings, word), vyslat (depute, deputize, dispatch, send, send forth), vypravit (dispatch, fit out, pack off), sprovodit ze svìta (dispatch), rychlost (celerity, dispatch, gear, pace, quickness, rapidity, speed, speediness, swiftness, tempo, velocity), rychle odbýt (dispatch), pohotovost (alert, aptitude, dispatch, readiness, trim), odpravit (destroy, dispatch, put to death), odeslat (dispatch, draw out, forward, remit, send, send off, transmit), odeslání (dispatch, remittance), expedovat (consign, dispatch), expedice (despatch department, dispatch, dispatch department). (various references)

Danish

rimelig ekspeditionsklausul (reasonable despatch clause), fremskynde afsendelsen (to accelerate despatch). (various references)

Dutch

verzending bespoedigen (to accelerate despatch), clausule van verplicht snel handelen (reasonable despatch clause). (various references)

Finnish

kohtuullista toimintanopeutta vaativa lauseke (reasonable despatch clause). (various references)

French

dépêche. (various references)

German

senden (be on the air, beam, broadcast, dispatch, mailed, make, put out, rail, route, screen, send, ship, to broadcast, to transmit, transmit). (various references)

Greek 

μήνυμα (communication, dispatch, message, missive), φονεύω (destroy, dispatch, kill, murder, slaughter, slay, slew), επισπεύδω (accelerate, dispatch, expedite, hasten, hie, hurry, precipitate, railroad, speed), επιστολή (dispatch, epistle, letter, missive), άγγελμα (announcement, annunciation, dispatch, message), αποστέλλω (consign, depurate, dispatch, send, send off for, ship). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשלוח (consign, drive out, send, transfer, transmit), ל�"ריץ (expedite, make run, run), תש�"ורת (broadcast, communication, dispatch, message), שלוח (dismissal, launching, send off, sending away), אש�'ר (consignment), א�'רת (deed, dispatch, document, edict, epistle, letter, lettercard, missive, note, writ). (various references)

Hungarian

sietség (diligence, dispatch, expedience, expediency, haste, hurry, hustle, scurry, scuttle, tearing hurry, trepidancy, trepidation, trepidity), sürgöny (cable, dispatch, telegram, telegraph message), jelentés (application, application report, connotation, denotation, dispatch, import, meaning, memorandum, purport, report, sense, significance), elküldés (consignment, dispatch, getting off, sending, sending away, shipment). (various references)

Italian

disbrigo (despatching, dispatch, dispatching, settlement), dispaccio (dispatch, mail), invio (consignation, dispatch, forwarding, mailing, remittance, sending, submission), celerit� (celerity, dispatch, expedition, swiftness), esecuzione (dispatch, execute, execute cycle, execution, execution cycle, fulfillment, fulfilment, machine run, operation, performance, program run, programme run, rendering, run), espletare (dispatch), bollettino militare (dispatch), inviare (direct, dispatch, forward, post, remit, send, send in), uccidere (bump off, commit suicide, dispatch, get killed, kill, kill oneself, liquidate, murder, slay, to kill), liquidare (clear, disburse, dispatch, get rid of, kill, liquidate, pay, pay off, sell off, settle, to convert into cash, to convert into money, to liquidate, to turn into cash, to turn into money, wind up), mandare (commit, consign, dispatch, drive, drop, emit, forward, get, give off, let out, send, send off, send out, sent, to send, transmit, utter), messaggio (address, dispatch, embassy, errand, message, notice, prompt), sbrigare (be quick, dispatch, finish off, get through, hurry up, polish off), spedire (consign, dispatch, forward, freights, mail, pack off, send, send on, ship, to dispatch, to forward, to send), spedizione (consignment, dispatch, dispatching, expedition, forwarding, forwarding agency, posting, programme, remittance, sending, shipment, shipping, transmission), evadere (bilk, dispatch, escape, evade, get away, run away). (various references)

Korean 

파견 (Delegating, Detaching, Dispatch, Dispatching). (various references)

Pig Latin

espatchday

Portuguese

despacho (adroitness, by law, clearing, decree, dispatch, expedition, judgment, knack, mandarin, order, resourcefulness), despachar (bill, book, cashier, dispatch, expedite, forward, freight car, send, send off, ship, speed), rapidez (celerity, dispatch, expedition, fastness, legerity, promptitude, quickness, rapidity, readiness, speed, velocity), prontidão (address, dispatch, expedition, haste, leggings, promptitude, readiness), missiva (dispatch, letter, missive), matar (bump off, butcher, close out, destroy, dispatch boat, do in, kill, liquidate, murder, quench, rub out, shoot, slaughter, slay, sticking, to kill, to stick), liquidar (acquit, close out, defray, dispatch, knock off, liquidate, pay, pay homage to, pay off, pay up, rub out, satisfy, sell out, settle), expedir (dispatch, emit, expedite, forward, issue, send, ship), expedição (delivery, dispatch, expedition, mail, ploy, sending, shipment, shipping, transport), executar (achieve, carry out, consummate, dispatch, effect, execute, fulfill, fulfilled, implement, obey, paint a rosier picture, perform), envio (dispatch, remittance), enviar (commit, consign, dispatch, forward, Frankfurter, mail, refer, send, send off, to send, transmit), eficiência (dispatch, efficiency, metal removing efficiency, operating efficiency, stock removing efficiency, sufficiency), consignar (address, bill, commit, consign, devote, dispatch, send). (various references)

Romanian

buletin de trimitere (despatch note). (various references)

Russian 

официальное донесение (dispatch), отправка (dispatch, shipment), быстрота (agileness, agility, celerity, dispatch, expedition, legerity, promptitude, promptness, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, rate, speed, swiftness, velocity), посылать (bunt, delegate, dispatch, refer, send, sends, sent, tender, transmit), депеша (dispatch, message). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

depeša (dispatch, telegram), pogubljenje (dispatch, execution), pogubiti (dispatch, execute, put to death), otpremiti (dispatch, relegate, ship), otpremanje (dispatch, relegation, shipping), odaslati, odašiljanje. (various references)

Spanish

despacho (adjustment of average, average adjustment, average statement, chamber, clearance, demand, den, dispatch, mail, office, place of business, sale, shop, study), despachar (attend to, conclude, dismiss, dispatch, dispose of, expedite, finish, sack, see to, send, send off, serve, settle, ship, toss off, transmit, turn away), despabilar (dispatch, sharpen, snuff), remitir (dispatch, refer, refer back, remit), prontitud (alacrity, dispatch, promptitude, promptness, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, readiness, speed, speeding, velocity), paso (advance, advances, clearing, crossing, culvert, deed, dispatch, doorway, drawing, dried, duct, entrée, exaltation, foot walk, footfall, footprint, footstep, fullness, fulness, gait, gangway, gate, gulf, gut, hangar, ignorance, jars, jaunt, lead, line, making land, move, movement, narrows, overtaking, pace, pass, passage, passageway, passing, path, pitch, progress, shooting, spacing, stair, step, Strait, straits, stride, tack, thoroughfare, track, transition, tread, walk, walkout, wheel track, wheelbase), parte (allotment, bit, Cantel, Cantle, communique, component, crumb, deal, detail, device, dial, dispatch, district, doormat, element, end, episode, faction, fragmemt, granule, kernel, lieu, lot, part, Parthian, partition, party, patch, percentage, piece, place, point, portion, proportion, quantum, report, role, section, share, side, slice, some, spot, substance, the part, way, whack), muerte (death, decease, demise, departure, dispatch, doom, murder, passing, quietus), mensaje (dispatch, errand, letter, message), enviar (consign, dismiss, dispatch, envoy, extend, forward, remit, send, send away, send off, ship, tap out, transmit, turn away), envío (consignment, cross reference, dispatch, journey, mailing, reference, remittance, sending, shipment, shipping), ejecución (achievement, decimation, discharge, dispatch, enforcement, execution, hanging, implementation, machine run, performance, pursuance, rendition, run), consignar (consign, dispatch, record, state), consignación (consignment, dispatch, journey), comunicado (communique, dispatch, notice, release). (various references)

Swedish

avsända (dispatch, post, posting, send off). (various references)

Turkish

gönderi (consignment). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự sai phái đi sự đánh chết tươi (dispatch), sự khẩn trương (dispatch), sự khử (dispatch), sự kết liễu cuộc đời sự giải quyết nhanh gọn (dispatch), sự giết đi (dispatch), bản thông báo hãng vận tải h� ng hoá (dispatch). (various references)

missum, missus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "despatch": despatched, despatches, despatching. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: hepcats, heptads, patched, patches, scathed, spathed.

-2 letters: adepts, aspect, cadets, cashed, chapes, chased, chaste, cheaps, cheats, deaths, depths, detach, epacts, hasped, hasted, hepcat, heptad, pashed, pasted, phased, sachet, scaped, scathe, shaped, spaced, spathe, taches.

-3 letters: ached, aches, acted, adept, ashed, cades, cadet, caped, capes, caphs, cased, caste, cates, cesta, chads, chape, chaps, chapt.

+1 letter: cadetship, deathcups.

+2 letters: cadetships, despatched, despatches, dispatched, dispatcher, dispatches, mispatched.

+3 letters: despatching, dispatchers, feldspathic, packthreads.

+4 letters: cycadophytes, diaphoretics, orthopaedics, phagocytosed, thunderclaps.

+5 letters: cardiopathies, dodecaphonist, photocathodes, procathedrals, sophisticated.

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