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place
Noun
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A place is a point in space: a town, building, room, or even somewhere on a desk.
It's nice to see the whole family together in one place.
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A place is an open space, courtyard, or marketplace.
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A place is a group of houses.
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A place is an area of land.
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A place is someones' frame of mind.
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A place is an area for someone to sit at.
We would like to sit at that table because it has three places open.
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A place is a role or position; it is a station.
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A place is the position in which you finish a competition in.
She finished the poker tournament in fifth place.
place
Verb
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If you place something somewhere, you put it in a certain spot.
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If you place, you earn a given spot in a competition.
She finished the poker tournament in fifth place.
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If you place something somewhere, you remember the last time you encountered it.
She placed the last time we met each other at.
of
Preposition
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Made using.
It is a house of cards.
dispatch
Verb
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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.
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If you dispatch a message, package, etc., you send it.
Before long, Edison was regularly dispatching instructions to his lab up north.
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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
Noun
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.