dispatch

If you send people or equipment somewhere for a particular job, you arrange for them to go there.

• They dispatched an ambulance.
• The editor dispatched two reporters to the scene.
• Police were dispatched to investigate the noise.

How to use it: dispatch someone/something to somewhere (They dispatched a rescue team to the island.)

Similar words: send, deploy

Common phrases: dispatch a team, dispatch someone to somewhere

If you send a message or package, you arrange for it to reach someone.

• We dispatch orders every morning.
• Your package was dispatched yesterday.
• The office dispatched a message to all branches.

How to use it: dispatch something to someone (We dispatched the parcel to the customer yesterday.)

Similar words: send, ship

Common phrases: dispatch an order, dispatch a message, dispatch a shipment, dispatch goods promptly

If you beat an opponent, you prevent them from winning, often quickly or easily.

• She dispatched her opponent easily.
• The champions dispatched the visiting team in under an hour.
• He dispatched three rivals before reaching the final.

Similar words: defeat, beat

Common phrases: dispatch an opponent, easily dispatch someone

If you kill a living thing quickly, you bring its life to an end.

• The hunter dispatched the wounded animal.
• The knight dispatched his enemy with one blow.
• A single shot dispatched the creature.

Similar words: kill, slay

Common phrases: dispatch an enemy, swiftly dispatch something

A message or news report sent by someone working far away.

• The reporter sent a dispatch.
• Her dispatch from Rome appeared in the newspaper.
• We received several dispatches about the fighting.

How to use it: dispatch from somewhere (We read a dispatch from the front.)

Similar words: report, message

Common phrases: a news dispatch, dispatch from somewhere, official dispatch, urgent dispatch

The service that receives emergency calls and sends police, ambulances, or other help.

• Call dispatch for help.
• Dispatch sent two ambulances to the scene.
• The officer radioed dispatch for more information.

Common phrases: call dispatch, police dispatch

The act of sending people somewhere to do a particular job.

• They ordered the dispatch of troops.
• The dispatch of a rescue team was delayed.
• Officials approved the immediate dispatch of doctors to the island.

How to use it: dispatch of someone to somewhere (The dispatch of engineers to the site solved the problem.)

Similar words: deployment

Common phrases: dispatch of troops, immediate dispatch

Speed and efficiency in dealing with a task.

• They finished the work with dispatch.
• She dealt with each complaint with admirable dispatch.
• Please handle this matter with all due dispatch.

How to use it: with dispatch (The requests were handled with dispatch.)

Similar words: speed, promptness

Opposites: delay

Common phrases: with dispatch, with due dispatch, act with dispatch