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Noun despatch has 4 senses
  1. 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
  2. dispatch, despatch, expedition, expeditiousness - the property of being prompt and efficient; "it was done with dispatch"
    --2 is a kind of celerity, quickness, rapidity
  3. dispatch, despatch - killing a person or animal
    --3 is a kind of killing, kill, putting to death
  4. dispatch, despatch, shipment - the act of sending off something
    --4 is a kind of departure, going, going away, leaving
    --4 has particulars: reshipment
    Derived form: verb despatch1
,Verb despatch has 1 sense
  1. dispatch, despatch, send off - send away towards a designated goal
    --1 is one way to transport, send, ship
    Derived form: noun despatch4
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Somebody ----s somebody PP
    Somebody ----s something PP
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