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noun

dispatch

an official report (usually sent in haste)

In a sentence

Six example sentences with dispatch, each labelled with its topic.

  • The rider carried a dispatch from the front, its wax seal still warm when the general broke it open.

    History

  • Her novel opens with three paragraphs of clipped prose, a dispatch carried home from some remote colonial outpost.

    Literature

  • The ambassador's dispatch reached the foreign ministry at midnight and the cabinet was woken to read it.

    Politics

  • The expedition's dispatch from the ice shelf reached the society in London three months after it was written.

    Science

  • Her first dispatch from the desert crossing described the camels in detail and the sandstorm in a single line.

    Travel

  • The regional manager's dispatch from the flooded warehouse reached head office within the hour and changed the whole plan.

    Business

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