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Dispatcher
noun, slang
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Noun
- 1 Agent noun of dispatch; one who dispatches. agent, form-of
- 2 employee of a transportation company who controls the departures of vehicles according to weather conditions and in the interest of efficient service wordnet
- 3 In a transportation organization, a person who controls the movements of vehicles.
"The organization of Decline to Sign involved trained teams sent out to where 608/610 supporters were gathering signatures, alerted by dispatchers operating a hotline to which anyone could call in—from a mall, the ferry terminals, holiday events, etc. when signature gatherers were sighted."
- 4 the official who signals the beginning of a race or competition wordnet
- 5 A piece of software responsible for assigning priorities and resources to tasks waiting to be scheduled.
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- 6 Any die used for cheating, whether fraudulently weighted or bearing duplicate numbers. slang
"First see that each die has all six figures upon it, for some dice are dispatchers, made with double numbers, […]"
Etymology
From dispatch + -er.
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