dispatch
/dɪˈspæt͡ʃ/ noun C2- A message sent quickly, as a shipment, a prompt settlement of a business, or an important official message sent by a diplomat, government official, military officer, etc.
- The act of doing something quickly. · We must act with dispatch in this matter.
- A mission by an emergency response service, typically involving attending to an emergency in the field.
- The passing on of a message for further processing, especially through a dispatch table.
Plural dispatches
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You will dispatch whatever luggage you intend to take by a trusty messenger unaddressed to Victoria to-night.
My dearest Julian, your recent dispatch from the damp confines of Bloomsbury arrived this morning, bringing a profound sense of temporal displacement to my sunlit breakfast table.
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