OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 11602

dispatch

/dɪˈspætʃ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
despacho • envío urgente
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.
WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not p…
comunicado • despacho • envío
The act of doing something quickly.
During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of phil…
We must act with dispatch in this matter.
📚 verb • entry_id 11601

dispatch

/dɪˈspætʃ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
despachar
To send (a shipment) with promptness.
despacharse
To destroy (someone or something) quickly and efficiently.
"And our dogs used to tree the cats on our property here, and we'd dispatch them."
So Tyrion hatches one last brilliant scheme in a season full of them, and this one goes exactly as well as all the others, even if it doesn’t look like it at first. He alone takes…
despachar
To defeat
Gareth Southgate's side had little trouble dispatching the side 172nd in the Fifa rankings.
despachar
To hurry.
prithee, dispatch
“Proceed, friend Nicolas, and let us dispatch; for, it grows late.”
privar
To deprive.