dispatch
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Is dispatch a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To send (a shipment) with promptness.transitive
2. (transitive) To send (a person) away hastily.Examples: "The League of One was suddenly exposed and in danger of being hunted by enemies of the salarians. Before any harm could be done, the team mysteriously disappeared.[...]Realizing the threat posed by this rogue outfit, the Special Tasks Group dispatched a team of hunters. When they didn't return, the STG dispatched ten of its brightest operators with broad discretionary powers. Only two returned; they reported no evidence of the League."transitive
3. (transitive) To send (an important official message) promptly, by means of a diplomat or military officer.transitive
4. (transitive) To send (a journalist) to a place in order to report.Examples: "Scores of foreign journalists have been dispatched to Seoul to report on the growing tensions between the two Koreas and the possibility of war."transitive
5. (transitive) 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."transitive
6. (transitive) To rid; to free.Examples: "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"transitive
noun (English)
1. (computing) The passing on of a message for further processing, especially through a dispatch table.countableuncountable
2. (obsolete) A dismissal.countableobsoleteuncountable
Definition source: Wiktionary