Meaning

3 senses
  1. In a transportation organization, a person who controls the movements of vehicles.

    Flugdienstberater, Dispatcher, Fahrdienstleiter

    диспе́тчерdispétčer

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

  2. A piece of software responsible for assigning priorities and resources to tasks waiting to be scheduled.

  3. (slang)Any die used for cheating, whether fraudulently weighted or bearing duplicate numbers.

Examples

8 sentences
  1. Tom is working as a dispatcher.

    ruТом работает диспетчером.

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  2. Tom has been working as a dispatcher.

    ruТом работает диспетчером.

    deTom hat als Disponent gearbeitet.

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  3. Tom is a dispatcher.

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  4. Jane radioed the dispatcher for backup.

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  5. Layla was working as a dispatcher.

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Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
a person who controls the movements of vehicles:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a person who controls the movements of vehicles:

Forms

plural: dispatchers
Singulardispatcher
Pluraldispatchers

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • the official who signals the beginning of a race or competition:starter

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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