Meanings
noundispatchment (countable and uncountable, plural dispatchments)
plural dispatchments
- countableobsoleteuncountableThe act of dispatching.
For want of dispatchment of matters
1529, Cardinal Wolsey, State Trials
Origin
Compare Old French despechement.
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