# dispatching

Pronunciation: US/AUS say "duh-SPACH-ing" /dəˈspæt͡ʃɪŋ/; UK say "di-SPACH-ing" /dɪˈspætʃɪŋ/

## Verb

1. Present participle and gerund of dispatch. — present participle and gerund of dispatch
   - Simple: The -ing form of dispatch. Use it after am, is, are, was or were, or to name the action.
   - _The utility is dispatching extra crews to restore power after the storm._
   - _She wasted no time dispatching her opponent in straight sets._

## Noun

2. The act of sending someone or something to a destination for a particular purpose.
   - Simple: Sending a person or thing to a place for a reason.
   - _The dispatching of rescue teams began within minutes of the earthquake._
   - _A delay in dispatching left the patient waiting forty minutes for an ambulance._
3. A burial, chiefly in the joking phrase “hatching, matching and dispatching” for the church's rites of birth, marriage and death. *(colloquial)*
   - Simple: A burial, mostly said as a joke in the phrase “hatching, matching and dispatching.”
   - _After forty years in the parish, the old priest had seen more hatching, matching and dispatching than he could count._
   - _With a christening in May, a wedding in June and Grandpa's funeral in August, it was a summer of hatching, matching and dispatching._

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