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dispatcher

noun
/ˈdɪs.pætʃ.ə(ɹ)/UK

Etymology

From dispatch + -er.

  1. borrowed from dispacciare
  2. borrowed from despachar
  3. formed as dispatcher — “dispatch + -er”

Definitions

  1. Agent noun of dispatch

    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…

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

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Any die used for cheating, whether fraudulently weighted or bearing duplicate numbers.

      • First see that each die has all six figures upon it, for some dice are dispatchers, made with double numbers, […]
      • He also knew, with another proficient glance, that the dice the youngster jiggled were likely a pair of dispatchers—so named because they effectively "dispatched" their intended targets: suckers.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dispatcher. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA