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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

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

— Anthony Lyveden • Dornford Yates

... 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

... this much, it will be an easy matter to telegraph on ahead and have the train searched," said Mr. Parker. "I'll go and see the train dispatcher here." ...

— Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South • Laura Lee Hope