- dispatch
- 1. verb
1)
all the messages were dispatched
Syn:send (off), post, mail, forward, transmit, e-mail2)the business was dispatched in the morning
Syn:deal with, finish, conclude, settle, discharge, perform; expedite, push through; informal make short work of3)the hero dispatched a host of villains
Syn:kill, put to death, take/end the life of; slaughter, butcher, massacre, wipe out, exterminate, eliminate; murder, assassinate, execute; informal bump off, do in, do away with, take out, blow away, ice, rub out, waste; literary slaySee note at kill2. noun1)files ready for dispatch
Syn:sending, posting, mailing, e-mailing2)efficiency and dispatch
Syn:promptness, speed, speediness, swiftness, rapidity, briskness, haste, hastiness; literary fleetness, celerity3)the latest dispatch from the front
Syn:communication, communiqué, bulletin, report, statement, letter, message; news, intelligence; informal memo, info, story, lowdown, scoop; literary tidings4)the capture and dispatch of the rogue bull
Syn:killing, slaughter, massacre, extermination, elimination; murder, assassination, execution; literary slaying
Thesaurus of popular words. 2014.