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dispatch box noun[ 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(英国下议院的)公文箱 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases UK politics: government administration & organization apex awkward backbench Brexit hung parliament lord parliamentary partition partitionist PMQs policy-maker quasi-public reprivatization reprivatize reshuffle soviet the awkward gangidiom the House of Commons the House of Lords the Houses of Parliament
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. |