dispatch vs off

dispatch

verb
  • To destroy (someone or something) quickly and efficiently. 

  • To send (a shipment) with promptness. 

  • To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform. 

  • To send (a person) away hastily. 

  • To pass on for further processing, especially via a dispatch table (often with to). 

  • To rid; to free. 

  • To send (an important official message) promptly, by means of a diplomat or military officer. 

  • To send (a journalist) to a place in order to report. 

noun
  • A mission by an emergency response service, typically involving attending to an emergency in the field. 

  • 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. 

  • The passing on of a message for further processing, especially through a dispatch table. 

off

verb
  • To kill. 

  • To switch off. 

noun
  • Beginning; starting point. 

prep
  • Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering. 

  • Removed or subtracted from. 

  • Used to indicate the location or direction of one thing relative to another, implying adjacency or accessibility via. 

  • Out of the possession of. 

  • Detached, separated, excluded or disconnected from; away from a position of attachment or connection to. 

  • Used to express location at sea relative to land or mainland. 

  • No longer wanting or taking. 

  • Not positioned upon, or away from a position upon. 

adv
  • Offstage. 

  • Used in various other ways specific to individual idiomatic phrases, e.g. bring off, show off, put off, tell off, etc. See the entry for the individual phrase. 

  • Into a state of non-operation or non-existence. 

  • So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated. 

  • In a direction away from the speaker or other reference point. 

adj
  • Inoperative, disabled. 

  • On the side furthest from the kerb (the right-hand side if one drives on the left). 

  • Inappropriate; untoward. 

  • Circumstanced. 

  • Cancelled; not happening. 

  • Disgusting, repulsive, abhorrent. 

  • Presently unavailable. 

  • Started on the way. 

  • Rancid, rotten, gone bad. 

  • Less than normal, in temperament or in result. 

  • The off front wheel came loose. 

  • Not fitted; not being worn. 

  • Designating a time when one is not performing to the best of one's abilities. 

  • In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman. 

  • Far; off to the side. 

  • Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent. 

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