noun · countable / uncountable · rare

dispatch

dis·patch

dispatch · dispatches

поспіх

экспедиция, депеша

Eilbotschaft, Eilbenachrichtigung

A message sent quickly, as a shipment, a prompt settlement of a business, or an…A message sent quickly, as a shipment, a prompt settlement of a business, or an important official message sent by a diplomat, government official, military officer, etc.

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/dɪˈspæt͡ʃ/

» About thirty firefighters were dispatched.

Ungefähr dreißig Feuerwehrmänner wurden gesendet.

Meaning

5 senses

(countable, uncountable)A message sent quickly, as a shipment, a prompt settlement of a business, or an important official message sent by a diplomat, government official, military officer, etc.
Depesche, Eilbotschaft, Eilbenachrichtigung
депешаdepeša
(countable, uncountable)The act of doing something quickly.
We must act with dispatch in this matter.
экспеди́цияekspedícija
the act of sending off something
(countable, uncountable)A mission by an emergency response service, typically involving attending to an emergency in the field.
(countable, uncountable)The passing on of a message for further processing, especially through a dispatch table.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)A dismissal.

Examples

29 sentences

About thirty firefighters were dispatched.
deUngefähr dreißig Feuerwehrmänner wurden gesendet. — Trebalor
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The government dispatched missions abroad.
Уряд вислав посланців за кордон. — svarga
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The parcel is ready for dispatch.
ruПосылка готова к отправке. — marafon
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The dispatch sent officers over immediately.
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Did he dispatch them to you?
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Translations

6 languages

Русский

By meaning 2

message sent quickly:

act of dispatching:

Deutsch

By meaning 1

message sent quickly:

Origin

Borrowed from Spanish despachar and/or Italian dispacciare. Further etymology is uncertain

Borrowed from Spanish despachar and/or Italian dispacciare. Further etymology is uncertain. For first element des-, see dis-. Second element probably from either Vulgar Latin *pactāre (“to fasten"”), *pactiare or Latin -pedicāre (“to entrap, shackle”), from pedica, from pēs. Ultimately related to impeach through shared Latin root. The first known use in writing (in the past tense, spelled as dispached) is by Bishop Cuthbert Tunstall in 1517. This would be unusually early for a borrowing from a Romance language other than French, but Tunstall had studied in Italy and was Commissioner to Spain, so this word may have been borrowed through diplomatic circles. The alternative spelling despatch was introduced in Samuel Johnson's dictionary, probably by accident.

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