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US
/ˈdɪsˌpætʃɝ, dɪˈspætʃɝ/
]
[ UK /dɪspˈætʃɐ/ ]
[ UK /dɪspˈætʃɐ/ ]
NOUN
- employee of a transportation company who controls the departures of vehicles according to weather conditions and in the interest of efficient service
- the official who signals the beginning of a race or competition
How To Use dispatcher In A Sentence
- When I saw it was a beer company, I called my dispatcher and said, ‘I can’t do this. Muslim trucker sues over alcohol load
- Back then I was already working as a dispatcher at the Com Center. BREACH OF DUTY
- A taxi dispatcher requires the precise location of cabs to determine which is the closest to a pickup.
- But Boardlawn (ph) said he had seen a fuzzy fax of an older picture of McNair so he calls the dispatcher to ask for a description and McNair plays along. CNN Transcript Apr 9, 2006
- Mrs. Henderson was on the phone with the police, trying to get past the dispatcher.
- New research in The Lancet medical journal shows that people were actually more likely to survive if ambulance dispatchers simply talked people through giving chest compressions, rather than trying to explain mouth-to-mouth resuscitation as well. Kiss goodbye to the kiss of life?
- A dispatcher at the County Jail foiled an attempted break by as many as five men from the fourth-floor maximum security cell block.
- The dispatcher manages the transition from ready to - run to run.
- Police say they wanted to clarify initial accounts which were based on hearsay, hurried details from dispatchers.
- Naturally the CSX dispatcher radioed for the police to come investigate the freight train, and we got underway about 10 minutes or so later.
