dispatch case
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of dispatch case
First recorded in 1915–20
Example Sentences
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From his dispatch case Anthony Eden withdrew a document.
From Time Magazine Archive
The news that the Chancellor brought forth from the dispatch case was almost all bad.
From Time Magazine Archive
Shastri, who had spent most of the 2�-hour flight with his bare feet propped up on a metal dispatch case as he perused official papers, landed almost on the run.
From Time Magazine Archive
His bright yellow dispatch case bulging with documents, Secretary Acheson took his weary bones up to Capitol Hill for a closed session with the Republicans.
From Time Magazine Archive
He opened his shabby dispatch case, and showed it full of papers.
From Mystery at Geneva An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings by Macaulay, Rose, Dame
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