Usually means: Send off quickly for purpose.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. dispatch: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. dispatch: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dispatch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dispatch: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dispatch: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dispatch, dispatch: Wordnik
  7. dispatch: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dispatch: Wiktionary
  9. dispatch: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dispatch (despatch): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dispatch: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Dispatch, dispatch: Dictionary.com
  13. dispatch: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dispatch: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Dispatch (Band), Dispatch (band), Dispatch (disambiguation), Dispatch (film), Dispatch (logistics), Dispatch, The Dispatch (Lexington), The Dispatch (disambiguation), The Dispatch, The dispatch: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Dispatch: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. dispatch: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. dispatch: Rhymezone
  19. dispatch: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. dispatch: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. dispatch: Free Dictionary
  22. dispatch: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. dispatch: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. dispatch: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. DISPATCH: Accounting Glossary
  3. Dispatch: eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary
  4. Glossary of International Trade Terms (No longer online)
  5. Dispatch (logistics), dispatch: Legal dictionary
  6. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dispatch (logistics), dispatch: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dispatch: Idioms

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DISPATCH: Energy Terms

(Note: See dispatcher as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To send (a shipment) with promptness.
verb:  (transitive) To send (a person) away hastily.
verb:  (transitive) To send (an important official message) promptly, by means of a diplomat or military officer.
verb:  (transitive) To send (a journalist) to a place in order to report.
verb:  (transitive) To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.
verb:  (transitive) To rid; to free.
verb:  (transitive) To destroy (someone or something) quickly and efficiently.
verb:  (transitive) To defeat
verb:  (transitive, computing) To pass on for further processing, especially via a dispatch table (often with to).
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To hurry.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To deprive.
noun:  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.
noun:  The act of doing something quickly.
noun:  A mission by an emergency response service, typically involving attending to an emergency in the field.
noun:  (computing) The passing on of a message for further processing, especially through a dispatch table.
noun:  (obsolete) A dismissal.

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