despatch

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• Despatch — may refer to: Contents 1 Business 2 Computers and software 3 Military terminology 4 Places 5 …   Wikipedia

• Despatch — Administration Pays …   Wikipédia en Français

• despatch — de‧spatch [dɪˈspætʆ] verb [transitive] TRANSPORT another spelling of dispatch see also advice of despatch * * * despatch UK US /dɪˈspætʃ/ verb ► UK …   Financial and business terms

• Despatch — De*spatch , n. & v. Same as {Dispatch}. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• despatch — index delegate Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

• despatch — 18c. variant of DISPATCH (Cf. dispatch) (q.v.), apparently the result of an error in the printing of Johnson s dictionary …   Etymology dictionary

• despatch — see dispatch …   Modern English usage

• despatch — [di spach′] vt., n. var. of DISPATCH …   English World dictionary

• despatch — Dispatch Dis*patch (?; 224), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dispatched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dispatching}.] [OF. despeechier, F. d[ e]p[^e]cher; prob. from pref. des (L. dis ) + (assumed) LL. pedicare to place obstacles in the way, fr. L. pedica fetter, fr.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• despatch — Dispatch Dis*patch , n. [Cf. OF. despeche, F. d[ e]p[^e]che. See {Dispatch}, v. t.] [Written also {despatch}.] 1. The act of sending a message or messenger in haste or on important business. [1913 Webster] 2. Any sending away; dismissal; riddance …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• despatch — I. v. a. [Written also Dispatch.] 1. Send away (in haste). 2. Kill, slay, slaughter, assassinate, put to death, send out of the world. 3. Hasten, expedite, accelerate, forward, speed, quicken, finish, conclude, wind up, push or urge forward,… …   New dictionary of synonyms