(n.) A cheerful readiness, willingness, or promptitude; joyous activity; briskness; sprightliness; as, the soldiers advanced with alacrity to meet the enemy.
Example Sentences:
(1) With commendable alacrity, meanwhile, the developers at art-game co-operative KOOPmode have already released a downloadable satire on how Facebook might work in 3D , graced with the irresistible tagline: "Scroll Facebook … with your face".
(2) Two days later, as she squatted down with alacrity at her home, she felt intense pain in the whole head as if struck with a hammer.
(3) Such has been the alacrity with which Spanish, French, Dutch and German consumers have taken to Primark that it has become a real disruptor on the fashion scene right across its territories.” Spain, Portugal and Ireland performed very strongly.
(4) The cases were remarkable for their color, texture, location, and presentation and suggest that a high index of suspicion, if not an alacrity to biopsy, is needed for the diagnosis of primary localized amyloid to be made.
(5) He agrees with alacrity when the Guardian photographer, Tom Jenkins, suggests we climb into the ring, where the light is at its softest.
(6) Southgate’s team struggled to deal with Croatia’s corners all night while the Group Five winners also counterattacked with great alacrity, the talented Ante Coric twice coming close with fine swerving shots.
(7) In the 26th minute the odds appeared to tilt against Inter when Sergio Busquets went down with exaggerated alacrity under Motta's challenge and looked up with a grin to see a red card being shown to the Brazilian midfielder.
(8) One that identifies barriers to integration and sets about dismantling them with alacrity.
(9) More alarmingly, there was also a tendency when England did get the ball to give it straight back with remarkable alacrity.
(10) Endocrinologic evaluation should be done with alacrity.
(11) Meldonium was added [to the Prohibited List] because of evidence of its use by athletes with the intention of enhancing performance.” Maria Sharapova's PR machine limits damage but raises uncomfortable questions | Bryan Armen Graham Read more Sharapova’s principal sponsors reacted with unusual alacrity.
(12) Don’t have five pints for lunch One of the things that makes me proudest to be British is the alacrity with which we will turn any event into an excuse to start drinking in the day.
(13) We missed our appointment in October – though possibly he had other things on his mind: since January 2007 he has been a non-executive member of the BBC's executive board , which has been ditching members with alacrity.
(14) Had the ballgirl in the FA Cup match in 1991 between second division Blackburn Rovers and Liverpool not returned the ball with such alacrity, the English champions might not have levelled the score .
(15) Jürgen Klopp prides himself on creating teams that press aggressively and cover every blade of grass, but the Liverpool manager was beaten at his own game here as Leicester worked tirelessly to close down their opponents, pinch possession and break with alacrity.
(16) This is a rare aspect of New Labour policy that the coalition has taken up with some alacrity.
(17) ‘Irresponsibility’ is too mild a term: traders did $3tn of damage The rigging of Libor , we now know, took place with alacrity across the City.
(18) The intravenous load was given to assess the alacrity of hormonal release after glycemic stimulus, and the oral glucose to determine how the speed of initial insulinogenesis modifies the disposition of ingested carbohydrate.
(19) Foot's column went from strength to strength, hoovering up awards and providing poor, sick and disadvantaged readers with a much needed voice, often ranged against a civil service bureaucracy Foot quarried with alacrity.
(20) No matter what reassurance his centre-forward yelled, the ball was coming into the danger area and Wise ought to have cleared it with alacrity.
Dispatch
Definition:
(v. t.) To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.
(v. t.) To rid; to free.
(v. t.) To get rid of by sending off; to send away hastily.
(v. t.) To send off or away; -- particularly applied to sending off messengers, messages, letters, etc., on special business, and implying haste.
(v. t.) To send out of the world; to put to death.
(v. i.) To make haste; to conclude an affair; to finish a matter of business.
(v. t.) The act of sending a message or messenger in haste or on important business.
(v. t.) Any sending away; dismissal; riddance.
(v. t.) The finishing up of a business; speedy performance, as of business; prompt execution; diligence; haste.
(v. t.) A message dispatched or sent with speed; especially, an important official letter sent from one public officer to another; -- often used in the plural; as, a messenger has arrived with dispatches for the American minister; naval or military dispatches.
(v. t.) A message transmitted by telegraph.
Example Sentences:
(1) And this is the supply of 30% of the state’s fresh water.” To conduct the survey, the state’s water agency dispatches researchers to measure the level of snow manually at 250 separate sites in the Sierra Nevada, Rizzardo said.
(2) It's not a great stretch to see parallels between the movie's set-up and the film industry in 2012: disposable teens are manipulated into behaving in certain ways, before being degraded and dispatched, all the while being remotely observed by middle-aged men, gambling on their fates.
(3) We initiated a program of telephone CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) instruction provided by emergency dispatchers to increase the percentage of bystander-initiated CPR for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
(4) Traoré had added a fifth before Andros Townsend dispatched a consolation from distance, though that meant little.
(5) Rouhani said on Saturday that Iran had never dispatched any forces to Iraq and it was very unlikely it ever would, but Qassem Suleimani, commander of the Quds force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), was in Baghdad last week to give advice to Maliki.
(6) Results of the model applied to several planning data sets (including a form of the Austin, Texas planning problem) demonstrate that more concentrated ambulance allocation patterns exist which may lead to easier dispatching, reduced facility costs, and better crew load balancing with little or no loss of service coverage.
(7) In what was widely seen as a vote of low confidence in the Eulex inquiry, the EU’s new foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, announced in Brussels this week that she would dispatch an independent legal expert to oversee its progress.
(8) Frozen aliquots of each sample were dispatched to each of the laboratories, where the aliquots were assayed using the same one-stage, two-stage and chromogenic methods.
(9) The dispatch center is announcing a rescue unit transporting a heavy injured casualty.
(10) Along the way he also reached the final of the US Open Cup, and in the MLS Cup dispatched the holders LA Galaxy in the conference semi-finals, before beating Porter’s Timbers in both the home and road legs of the Western final (his team had beaten Portland in the US Open Cup semis too).
(11) The median duration of the dispatching phase was about 2 hours when only one doctor intervened and 4 h, 35 min when a second doctor was consulted.
(12) Two days later, another letter was dispatched to Blears, this time from Hank Dittmar, the chief executive of the foundation and an aide to the prince.
(13) Humanitarian organisations also help with rescues at sea, which often occur when smugglers dispatch a dozen or more boats when seas are calm.
(14) So said the Dispatches programme’s author and presenter, Fraser Nelson , who also happens to be editor of the Spectator during what is turning out to be one of its more ideological phases – as distinct from the High Tory scepticism of many decades.
(15) Prompt identification of cardiac arrest by emergency dispatchers can save valuable time and increase the likelihood of successful resuscitation.
(16) Woods was stripped of his editorship of the Daily Dispatch newspaper and banned from public speaking because of his investigation into the death of black activist Steve Biko in 1977.
(17) In fact, it was the Tories who were quietly prevailing on this front: Grant Shapps, the Tory chairman, had organised a “team 2015” force of 100,000 volunteers, loosely modelled on the London 2012 Games Makers , dispatched to 100 key locations on “Super Saturdays”.
(18) The six trained together, were dispatched to Afghanistan together and, in the end, perished together when their armoured vehicle was hit by a massive Taliban bomb.
(19) While the opening tranche of "tales" derive from the work of forgotten contemporary humorists, the pieces of London reportage that he began to contribute to the Morning Chronicle in autumn 1834 ("Gin Shops", "Shabby-Genteel People", "The Pawnbroker's Shop") are like nothing else in pre-Victorian journalism: bantering and hard-headed by turns, hectic and profuse, falling over themselves to convey every last detail of the metropolitan front-line from which Dickens sent back his dispatches.
(20) Last week Obama said he would dispatch 300 special forces to help train Iraq's army, but said they would not have a direct combat role.