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/dɪspˈætʃər/ /dˈɪspˌætʃər/ Listen

Dispatcher

noun

The official who signals the beginning of a race or competition. Synonym: starter.

Employee of a transportation company who controls the departures of vehicles according to weather conditions and in the interest of efficient service.

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"Dispatcher" Quotes from Famous Books

... courthouse was completed in 1956, jail facilities were incorporated into this addition. Since 1956, the old jail building has been used for offices of various county agencies, including the juvenile court and probation office, civil defense office, fire board, police dispatcher, and ...

— The Fairfax County Courthouse • Ross D. Netherton

... to leave the track in the possession of its present owners, but to permit any individual or company to run, upon the payment of a fixed toll, trains and cars over it, under the control of a train-dispatcher stationed at a central point. This train-dispatcher is to be notified by telegraph of the movement of each train, and is to give his orders to the officers in charge of each train, as to what points they are to go, where to pass one train and where to wait for another. Each transportation ...

— The Railroad Question - A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and - remedies for their abuses • William Larrabee

... hand his dispatcher the knife, Anthony plucked the eye-glasses from beneath a cushion and put ...

— Anthony Lyveden • Dornford Yates

... dispatcher's office and Clay carefully placed the bags on a table beside the counter. Martin peered into one of the bags. "Seriously, kid, what do you have in that ...

— Code Three • Rick Raphael

... years, Elaine Kinslow of Indianapolis, Indiana was on and off welfare. Today she's a dispatcher with a van company. She's saved enough money to move her family into a good neighborhood. And she's helping other welfare recipients go ...

— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various