DISPATCH

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dispatch I. verb tranzitiv

1. a expedia, a trimite (implicând de obicei noţiunea de urgenţă).

2. (fig.) a trimite pe lumea cealaltă, a omorî, a da lovitura de graţie (cuiva).

3. a termina, a isprăvi, a lichida repede (o treabă, o problemă etc.);

to dispatch one’s dinner a mânca la repezeală.

dispatch II. substantiv

1. expediere, trimitere (de mesaje, colete, trupe etc.);

date of dispatch dată a expedierii.

2. execuţie, omorâre;

happy dispatch a) harakiri; b) moarte imediată (prin execuţie).

3. urgenţă, promptitudine, rapiditate;

with all possible dispatch cu toată rapiditatea posibilă.

4. depeşă, mesaj, document oficial trimis printr-un curier, raport sau dispoziţie cu caracter oficial / diplomatic etc.

5. întreprindere de transporturi rapide.

◊ (mil.) to be mentioned in dispatches a fi citat prin ordin de zi.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

When the youth had been dispatched with the note, Sherlock Holmes gave his instructions to the servants.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At London Bridge, Holmes wrote a telegram to his brother, which he handed to me before dispatching it.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The manuscript was privately dispatched, accompanied by a note, modestly saying that if the tale didn't get the prize, which the writer hardly dared expect, she would be very glad to receive any sum it might be considered worth.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Being very anxious to see the dear old fellow, nevertheless, I dispatched my dinner, in a manner not at all calculated to raise me in the opinion of the chief waiter, and hurried out by the back way.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

From thence we went to Tonquin, where the captain resolved to continue some time, because many of the goods he intended to buy were not ready, nor could he expect to be dispatched in several months.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

Desirous of Mr. Morland's assistance, as well in giving encouragement, as in finding conversation for her guest, whose embarrassment on his father's account she earnestly pitied, Mrs. Morland had very early dispatched one of the children to summon him; but Mr. Morland was from home—and being thus without any support, at the end of a quarter of an hour she had nothing to say.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

My mother was so much worse that Peggotty, coming in with the teaboard and candles, and seeing at a glance how ill she was,—as Miss Betsey might have done sooner if there had been light enough,—conveyed her upstairs to her own room with all speed; and immediately dispatched Ham Peggotty, her nephew, who had been for some days past secreted in the house, unknown to my mother, as a special messenger in case of emergency, to fetch the nurse and doctor.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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