dispatching

1. 1
   verb

   The -ing form of dispatch. Use it after am, is, are, was or were, or to name the action.

   The fire department is dispatching two trucks to the scene.

   The newspaper is dispatching a reporter to the flooded town.

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2. 2
   noununcountable

   Sending a person or thing to a place for a reason.

   The dispatching of the fire trucks took only two minutes.

   Quick dispatching of buses keeps the city moving at rush hour.

   Similarsending, deployment

3. 3
   nouncolloquialuncountable

   A burial, mostly said as a joke in the phrase “hatching, matching and dispatching.”

   Our little church still does plenty of hatching, matching and dispatching.

   This year we had a new baby, a wedding and a funeral: hatching, matching and dispatching all at once.

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