Despatch

Despatch

Despatch may refer to:

Contents

Business

  • despatch, the reverse of demurrage, paid under a voyage charter when a ship is loaded or unloaded in less time than allowed in the charter party
  • Merchants Despatch, a refrigerated freight transporting company, which founded the village of Despatch, New York

Computers and software

Military terminology

Places

  • Despatch, Eastern Cape, a small town near Uitenhage and Port Elizabeth in South Africa
  • Despatch, New York, United States, village now known as "East Rochester"

Ships

See also

  • Dispatch (disambiguation)

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Synonyms:
(in haste), , , / , , , , , , , , , , / , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , / (expeditiously sent), , , , / , ,


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  • Despatch — Administration Pays …   Wikipédia en Français

  • despatch — de‧spatch [dɪˈspætʆ] verb [transitive] TRANSPORT another spelling of dispatch see also advice of despatch * * * despatch UK US /dɪˈspætʃ/ verb ► UK …   Financial and business terms

  • Despatch — De*spatch , n. & v. Same as {Dispatch}. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • despatch — index delegate Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • despatch — 18c. variant of DISPATCH (Cf. dispatch) (q.v.), apparently the result of an error in the printing of Johnson s dictionary …   Etymology dictionary

  • despatch — see dispatch …   Modern English usage

  • despatch — [di spach′] vt., n. var. of DISPATCH …   English World dictionary

  • despatch — Dispatch Dis*patch (?; 224), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dispatched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dispatching}.] [OF. despeechier, F. d[ e]p[^e]cher; prob. from pref. des (L. dis ) + (assumed) LL. pedicare to place obstacles in the way, fr. L. pedica fetter, fr.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • despatch — Dispatch Dis*patch , n. [Cf. OF. despeche, F. d[ e]p[^e]che. See {Dispatch}, v. t.] [Written also {despatch}.] 1. The act of sending a message or messenger in haste or on important business. [1913 Webster] 2. Any sending away; dismissal; riddance …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • despatch — I. v. a. [Written also Dispatch.] 1. Send away (in haste). 2. Kill, slay, slaughter, assassinate, put to death, send out of the world. 3. Hasten, expedite, accelerate, forward, speed, quicken, finish, conclude, wind up, push or urge forward,… …   New dictionary of synonyms

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