English Explanatory Dictionary

dispatcher

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Agent noun of dispatch; one who dispatches.
  2. In a transportation organization, a person who controls the movements of vehicles.
  3. A piece of software responsible for assigning priorities and resources to tasks waiting to be scheduled.
  4. Any die used for cheating, whether fraudulently weighted or bearing duplicate numbers.

Pronunciation

/ˈdɪs.pætʃ.ə(ɹ)/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-dispatcher.wav

Word forms

dispatcher dispatchers

Etymology

From dispatch + -er.

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on D Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary