Vocabulary Word
Word: dispatch
Definition: speediness; prompt execution; message sent with all due speed; V: send to a specified destination; finish promptly; kill
Definition: speediness; prompt execution; message sent with all due speed; V: send to a specified destination; finish promptly; kill
Sentences Containing 'dispatch'
In many cases the combined use of both exhaust and compression pumps is necessary to secure the desired result; as, for example, in pneumatic dispatch tubes.
In consequence of such fictions, it came, in many cases, to depend altogether upon the parties, before what court they would choose to have their cause tried, and each court endeavoured, by superior dispatch and impartiality, to draw to itself as many causes as it could.
He entreated me more than once to come in and win, but what with his table-spoon to my tea-spoon, his dispatch to my dispatch, and his appetite to my appetite, I was left far behind at the first mouthful, and had no chance with him.
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