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Noun despatch has 4 senses
- dispatch, despatch, communique - an official report (usually sent in haste)
--1 is a kind of report, news report, story, account, write up
--1 has parts: dateline
- dispatch, despatch, expedition, expeditiousness - the property of being prompt and efficient; "it was done with dispatch"
--2 is a kind of celerity, quickness, rapidity
- dispatch, despatch - killing a person or animal
--3 is a kind of killing, kill, putting to death
- dispatch, despatch, shipment - the act of sending off something
--4 is a kind of departure, going, going away, leaving
--4 has particulars: reshipment
Verb despatch has 1 sense
- dispatch, despatch, send off - send away towards a designated goal
--1 is one way to transport, send, ship
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
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