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1. Send away towards a designated goal
   - dispatch, send off

1. An official report (usually sent in haste)
   - dispatch, communiqué
    
2. The property of being prompt and efficient
   "it was done with despatch";
   - dispatch, expedition, expeditiousness
    
3. Killing a person or animal
   - dispatch
    
4. The act of sending off something
   - dispatch, shipment

Derived forms: despatching, despatched, despatches

Type of: account, celerity [archaic], departure, going, going away, kill, killing, leaving, news report, putting to death, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, report, send, ship, speediness, story, transport, write up

Encyclopedia: Despatch, South Africa