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dispatch

If you dispatch people or equipment somewhere, you send them there to do a particular task. The government has reportedly dispatched elite army troops to Baghdad. Vietnam dispatched ships and aircraft Saturday to the mouth of the Gulf of Thailand. If you dispatch a message, package, etc., you send it. Before long, Edison was regularly dispatching instructions to his lab up north. If you dispatch a living thing, you kill it. If the immune system has seen the viruses before, it can dispatch them swiftly. His men swiftly dispatched any French prisoners by beheading them.

dispatch

A dispatch is a message or report sent by a someone in a distant location. The New York Times ran 10 stories on Rwanda, half of them brief wire service dispatches. Dispatch is part of an emergency response system, such as police or ambulance, which sends personelle to deal with emergencies. When dispatch couldn't contact him, they called and asked me to check on him. The dispatch of someone to a place is the act of sending them there to to a particular task. They recommended to the President the dispatch of six thousand to eight thousand American combat forces. If you do something with dispatch you finish it without wasting time. We want to make sure that that work continues with all due dispatch and speed.

dispatch

send away towards a designated goal an official report (usually sent in haste) the act of sending off something (= discharge, complete) complete or carry out discharge one's duties dispose of rapidly and without delay and efficiently He dispatched the task he was assigned kill without delay the traitor was dispatched by the conspirators killing a person or animal (= despatch) the property of being prompt and efficient it was done with dispatch (= murder) kill intentionally and with premeditation The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered

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Movie subtitles

Dispatch.
I'll dispatch a convoy to meet him.
You will dispatch whatever luggage you intend to take by a trusted messenger unaddressed at the Victoria Station tonight.
You'd better read your dispatch, Captain.
Here's a late news dispatch that just came in.
This dispatch is for General Golz.
I have a dispatch for General Golz at Navacerrada.
He bears a dispatch for General Golz who commands the attack.
An urgent dispatch for General Golz.
And you, Prince Dauphin, with all swift dispatch to line and new-repair our towns of war with men of.courage and with means.defendant.
Dispatch us with all speed, lest that our king come here himself to question our delay.
Put this night's business into my dispatch.
Is he dispatch'd?
Come, sir, dispatch.
I can't believe they'd send a dispatch that you know nothing about.
Sit down. I want you to take a dispatch.
Take this dispatch to General Headquarters and wait there until further orders.
Dispatch, Sir.
And who are you? - Reporter, Morning Dispatch.
Capt. Mendoza, important dispatch.
Here is a card of an undertaker, a personal friend of mine who will arrange the matter for you on terms and with dispatch.
Dispatch us with all speed.
Courier. Dispatch. Observer.
I want to send a telegram To the Courier, Dispatch, Observer- all the New York newspapers.
Ambulance dispatch desk, please.
Dispatch a courier to Kyoto. Let the minister know of this at once.
You do things with dispatch. No wasted preliminaries.
How now, my hardy, stout resolved mates! Are you now going to dispatch this thing?
Go, go, dispatch.
Dispatch, my lord. The duke would be at dinner.
Come, come, dispatch. 'Tis bootless to exclaim.

News and current affairs

France will welcome some refugees, and Germany will dispatch some troops to Mali.
Indeed, the dispatch of Japanese peacekeepers under UN command to Cambodia in 1992 (the first time the 240,000-strong SDF had ventured on a mission abroad) was bitterly contested.
As soon as possible, I will dispatch an OSIFE needs-assessment team to Greece to contact the authorities - and the people and organizations already helping the needy - to work out a plan for which we can generate public support.
We would, they predicted, launch satellites, dispatch humans on orbital flights, assemble a large earth-orbiting space station, build reusable space shuttles, construct space telescopes, and send humans to the moon, Venus, and Mars.
Even though the SDF still cannot participate in combat, the Anti-Terrorism law is the first that allows Japan to dispatch armed forces to join in military operations outside Japanese territory and territorial waters while the shooting war is on.
Instead, in the UK and elsewhere, the predictable MFF chest-thumping that is now underway threatens to dispatch this kind of opportunity to the bin beneath the negotiating table.
The recent dispatch of inspectors to verify the shutdown of North Korea's weapons reactor and the continuing efforts to ferret out Iran's nuclear intentions are only the most visible signs of its monitoring function.
The forced dispatch of prisoners to work on overseas infrastructure projects raises new issues regarding China's human-rights record.
Although Japan did receive some appreciation for its dispatch of naval squadrons to the Mediterranean, it endured wide criticism for its refusal to send ground troops.
A Canadian military commander, asked what he would do if foreign soldiers attacked his country's Far North, calmly replied that he would dispatch an expedition to rescue them.

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