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What does dispatch mean?

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Verb
  1. To send a shipment with promptness.
  2. To send an important official message sent by a diplomat or military officer with promptness.
  3. To send a journalist to a place in order to report
  4. To hurry.
  5. To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.
  6. To rid; to free.
  7. (obsolete) To deprive.
  8. To destroy quickly and efficiently.
  9. (computing) To pass on for further processing, especially via a dispatch table (often with to).
Noun
  1. A message sent quickly, as a shipment, a prompt settlement of a business, or an important official message sent by a diplomat, or military officer.
  2. The act of doing something quickly.
  3. A mission by an emergency response service, typically attend to an emergency in the field.
  4. (obsolete) A dismissal.
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