Meaning & use
despatched
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Sent off promptly to a destination for a particular purpose.
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The general despatched reinforcements to the front line at once.
A courier was despatched with the urgent documents that same afternoon.
A note on using this word
'Despatch' is a chiefly British variant spelling of 'dispatch', historically favored in official and military writing.
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