dispatch case

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English

Noun

dispatch case (plural dispatch cases)

  1. A flat, stiff case used for carrying papers, documents, books, etc.
    • 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 44:
      He picked up his dispatch-case, mildewed under the buckles, from the desk-chair in the lounge, and walked to the door which led from the flat to the world of boys.
    • 1927, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger (The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes), published 1927:
      There is the long row of year-books which fill a shelf, and there are the dispatch-cases filled with documents, a perfect quarry for the student not only of crime, but of the social and official scandals of the late Victorian era.