释义 |
dis·patch·er 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 |