noun
also des·patch·er -chə(r)
( -s )
: one that dispatches or expedites usually as a vocation: as
a. : an employee of a transportation company who directs the departures of trains, planes, buses, trucks, boats, or other vehicles according to traveling conditions and in the best interests of efficient service
b. : one that assigns jobs to waiting seamen in a hiring hall
c. : one that expedites repair service or delivery of materials or goods within a plant or for customers
d. : a telephone local test deskman who directs the locating, testing, and clearing of trouble on subscriber lines
e. : one that upon receiving reports of forest fire from lookouts organizes men and equipment to combat it
f. : one that directs the departure of passenger elevators (as from the main floor of a large building)
worked as dispatcher at a big hotel
g. : one that receives information about crimes and transmits it by radio to police patrols
h. : one that directs the movement of oil or gas into and through pipeline systems or the disposition of loads and generating capacity on an electric power system
i. : a telegraph worker who directs the flow of messages during times of wire shortage or emergency or who assigns additional personnel when needed
j. : motor boss