dispatch boxnoun [ C ]
uk/dɪˈspætʃ ˌbɒks/us/dɪˈspætʃ ˌbɑːks/in the UK, the box on a table in the House of Commons that important politicians stand next to when they are formally speaking to the Members of Parliament
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Examples from literature
- Are his papers in this dispatch box?
- Artillery, cattle, supplies, dispatch boxes,—all were abandoned.
- At last, after he had covertly inspected all the bags, bundles and dispatch boxes, he disappeared in the surrounding gloom and did not reappear at all.
- He locked up her letter in his dispatch box.
- In one hand he carried an iron dispatch box, and in the other a heavy pistol.