dispatch

Definitions

1. verb

   To send (a shipment) with promptness.

2. verb

   To send (a person) away hastily.

3. verb

   To send (an important official message) promptly, by means of a diplomat or military officer.

4. verb

   To send (a journalist) to a place in order to report.

   Example

   • Scores of foreign journalists have been dispatched to Seoul to report on the growing tensions between the two Koreas and the possibility of war.
5. verb

   To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.

   Examples

   • Yet, ere we put ourselves in arms, dispatch we / The business we have talk'd of.
   • the which company of harvest men, being ready at the day appointed, almost in one fair day dispatcheth all the harvest work.
   ≈expedite
6. verb

   To eat, especially quickly.

7. verb

   To rid; to free.

   Example

   • But whā I had cleane diſpatched myſelf of this great charge and taſke, I loked not that I ſhould at any tyme afterwarde have any more to doe with this kynde of writing
8. verb

   To destroy (someone or something) quickly and efficiently.

   Example

   • "And our dogs used to tree the cats on our property here, and we'd dispatch them."
   ≈destroy≈kill
9. verb

   To defeat

   Example

   • Gareth Southgate's side had little trouble dispatching the side 172nd in the Fifa rankings.
10. verb

    To pass on for further processing, especially via a dispatch table (often with to).

    Example

    • These handlers perform any additional checking and processing that may be necessary before and after a message is dispatched to an object. In addition, some message types are handled internally by the kernel[…]