(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.
Shipment
Definition:
(n.) The act or process of shipping; as, he was engaged in the shipment of coal for London; an active shipment of wheat from the West.
(n.) That which is shipped.
Example Sentences:
(1) Freezing may be valuable while quality control procedures are performed following radiolabeling as well as if temporary storage or shipment of radioantibodies prior to patient dosing is undertaken.
(2) Russia has stepped up its battle against parmesan cheese, Danish bacon and other European delicacies, announcing it plans to incinerate contraband shipments on the border as soon as they are discovered.
(3) The results suggest that shipment and long-term storage of freeze-dried foot-and-mouth disease virus antigens is possible for use in the ELISA in the absence of refrigeration.
(4) He sold the first Tesco product – Tesco Tea – five years later when he bought a tea shipment from a merchant called TE Stockwell and combined their initials on the packaging.
(5) It also emerged that Cameron confronted Putin over arms supplies and had been personally involved in plans to prevent a Russian-manned shipment of three repaired attack helicopters and air defence systems reaching Syria.
(6) The first trial heard that Fleckney, a drug dealer known as "the chairman of the board", passed Clark information about drug shipments.
(7) The importation of a shipment of high-Se wheat from Australia in 1984 raised Se concentrations in breads and other wheat products two to four fold.
(8) The number of shipments in which Newcastle disease was found to be present in the birds is reviewed.
(9) Also in August, terrorist attacks were intensified, including speedboat strafing attacks on a Cuban seaside hotel "where Soviet military technicians were known to congregate, killing a score of Russians and Cubans"; attacks on British and Cuban cargo ships; contaminating sugar shipments; and other atrocities and sabotage, mostly carried out by Cuban exile organizations permitted to operate freely in Florida.
(10) Heins was speaking less than a week after RIM unveiled quarterly results with an operating loss of $643m (£409m) and handset shipments which dipped to their lowest level since spring 2009, amid a smartphone market growing at 50% annually.
(11) Michelle Wiese Bockman, markets editor of Lloyd's List, the shipping news and data provider, said the shipment provided "a signal that Libya is open to international trade and shipping.
(12) Aid shipments into the devastated city of Aleppo have yet to be allowed to reach civilians.
(13) Government restrictions, instituted in 2006, forbid the export of raw teff grain, only allowing shipments of injera and other processed products.
(14) The Sharq al-Awsat newspaper quoted a US official as saying Sudan had been warned in advance about the shipment.
(15) Similarly, 15 MAI strains were isolated from the lymph node pools of 12 deer from the 2 imported shipments.
(16) The former saw iPhone shipments rise from 26.9m in Q3 2012 to 33.8m in Q3 2013, but its market share dropped from 15.6% to 13.4% in that time.
(17) Analysts call shipments to intermediaries "sell-in"; the total number that actually reaches customers is "sell-through".
(18) PC calves had significantly less shrink after shipment and in 1971 significantly more rapid daily gain during the first weeks of the feeding period.
(19) While phablet shipments are still a small proportion of overall global smartphone shipments, they are seeing a marked increase in sales according to IDC's data.
(20) Areas with relatively poor adherence rates included pharmacy department preparation of investigational drug patient-information sheets (20.5%), maintaining information within the pharmacy on minimum stock levels (53.9%), mode of shipment (30.8%), time to receive investigational drugs after order placed (38.5%), acceptance of nursing transcriptions of oral orders (56.8%), including "investigational drug" on the dispensing label (55.8%), and approval of data sheets by the investigator and the institutional review board (40.5% and 37.8%, respectively).