Dispatched

Definition: Dispatched

Dispatched

Adjective

1. Sent off or away; "the dispatched messenger was has hardly out of sight before she wished call him back".

Date "dispatched" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Then you understood right, Merivel Miss Clemence is to be married and seemingly dispatched out of London with her husband, while in fact, I secrete her near the river in queue - the better to sport with her unobserved For her husband, I need a man who is far too enamored of women in general to make the mistake of loving one in particular (Restoration; writing credit: Rupert Walters) Twenty men were dispatched to you. (Krull; writing credit: Stanford Sherman)
Clever	Some people attend church three times in their lives: when they're hatched, when they're matched, and when they're dispatched. (references; author: unknown)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Engraving after an artwork by J.O. Davidson, published in "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War", Volume I, page 489. It shows six transports at Pittsburg Landing shortly after the Battle of Shiloh, in April 1862. The original caption reads: "Of the six transports, the one farthest up stream, on the right, is the Tycoon, which was dispatched by the Cincinnati Branch of the Sanitary Commission with stores for the wounded. The next steamer is the Tigress, which was General Grant's headquarters boat during the Shiloh campaign. On the opposite side of the river is seen the gun-boat Tyler. Credit: NAVY.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	I dispatched four of them, but the rest got away, and I presently shut my window.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		The production of testosterone is influenced by gonadotropic hormone dispatched from the pituitary gland (tropic hormones stimulate their target organs to secrete other hormones), and is regulated by interstitial-cell stimulating hormone (ICSH). (references)
Business		The United States dispatched two aircraft carrier battle groups to the region. (references)
Civil Liberties	Yemen	Security officials were dispatched to enforce the official's decision, a crowd gathered, and tensions escalated. (references)
	Lebanon	Following the May 2000 Israeli withdrawal, dozens of customs and military intelligence officers were dispatched to the south. (references)
	India	In the north, sporadic attacks against Christians that began in April 2000 continued into the summer of 2000. The Government dispatched the NCM to investigate the attacks in the north, but the NCM's findings that the attacks were not "communal in nature" led to widespread criticism in the minority community. (references)
Economic History	Japan	Until very recently, only a few occupations could be handled by dispatched worker agencies but this is one area where Japanese labor law has in fact been deregulated. (references)
	Lebanon	In 1958, during the last months of President Camille Chamoun's term, an insurrection broke out, and U.S. forces were briefly dispatched to Lebanon in response to an appeal by the government. (references)
	New Zealand	New Zealand's most recent PKO experience has been in East Timor, where it initially dispatched almost 10% of its entire defense force and continues to be the second-largest force contributor. (references)
Human Rights	Ghana	Members of the 64th Infantry Regiment were dispatched to control the situation. (references)
	Belize	A week later, the Government dispatched a boat to bring the four workers back to the country. (references)
	Nicaragua	The case immediately was reported to the local police, and officers were dispatched to detain Zapata. (references)
Minorities	Yemen	Also in May, in the ongoing feud between the Marib-based al-Zaydi tribe and the Sana'a-based Sanhan tribe, a child was killed and two adults injured in Marib when security forces were dispatched to rescue five kidnaped Sanhani children. (references)
	Pakistan	Local commentators believe the killing to be the work of Sipah-e-Mohammad, a Shi'a Muslim extremist group, and say it may have been ordered to avenge the killing of Agha Sultani, an Iranian Shi'a teacher who was killed in Karachi by unknown assailants on January 20. Following the killing of Inayatullah and three other clerics, a combination of police, paramilitary, and military forces were dispatched in an attempt to control a mob of Sunni Muslim students that reacted to the killing by setting several vehicles and businesses on fire. (references)
Political Economy	Italy	However, military units were dispatched to protect sensitive sites after terrorist attacks in the United States on September 11. There were allegations that police committed human rights abuses. (references)
Trade	Dominican Rep	Shipments may be dispatched in four hours when using Express Dispatch. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	BODY-:SNATCHER:, n. A robber of grave-worms. One who supplies the young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied the undertaker. The hyena. "One night," a doctor said, "last fall, I and my comrades, four in all, When visiting a graveyard stood Within the shadow of a wall. "While waiting for the moon to sink We saw a wild hyena slink About a new-made grave, and then Begin to excavate its brink! "Shocked by the horrid act, we made A sally from our ambuscade, And, falling on the unholy beast, Dispatched him with a pick and spade." Bettel K. Jhones
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Thomas Jefferson	1801-1809	An armed vessel of the United States was dispatched with instructions to our ministers at London to call on that Government for the satisfaction and security required by the outrage.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Dispatched" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 65.25% of the time. "Dispatched" is used about 282 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)	65.25%	184	22,714
Lexical Verb (past tense)	33.69%	95	33,629
Adjective (general or positive)	1.06%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	282	N/A

Expressions using "dispatched": be dispatched ♦ mail route to which dispatched. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "dispatched": radio-dispatched.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "dispatched"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		派遣 (Despatch, Dispatching). (various references)

French		route d'acheminement (mail route to which dispatched). (various references)

German		abgefertigt. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		遣外 (dispatched abroad), 出張�"� (agent, dispatched official, representative). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しゅっちょうい�" (agent, dispatched official, representative), け�"がい (dispatched abroad, outside orbit, outside range, outside the prefecture, overhanging cliff, prefectural tax). (various references)

Korean		파견하�" (Delegated). (various references)

Pig Latin		ispatchedday

Russian		посылать отправленный. (various references)

Spanish		despachado en otro, despabilado y perdido, remitido, enviado (envoy), consignado. (various references)

Turkish		kişisel ilanlar. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Dispatched" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: despatched, dispatche, mispunched. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "dispatched" (pronounced di'spa"kht)
4	-p a" kh t	patched.
3	-a" kh t	attached, detached, hatched, latched, matched, mismatched, overmatched, reattached, scratched, snatched, thatched, unattached, unmatched.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-d-e-h-i-p-s-t"
	-1 letter: cadetship.
	-2 letters: despatch, dispatch, hepatics, pastiche, pistache, pitheads, spicated.
	-3 letters: achiest, addicts, aitches, aphetic, aphides, aseptic, caddies, caddish, depicts, didacts, diphase, discept, ditched, ditches, edaphic, haddest, hepatic, hepcats, heptads, paddies, patched, patches, pitched, pitches, pithead, scathed, spathed, spathic, spicate.
	-4 letters: addict, adepts, aphids, apices, aspect, caddie, caddis, cadets, capsid, cashed, chaise, chapes, chased, chaste.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-d-d-e-h-i-p-s-t"
	+3 letters: dodecaphonist.
	+4 letters: dodecaphonists.
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