dispatcher

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English dispatch

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English dispatcher

From dispatch + -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪs.pætʃ.ə(ɹ)/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ætʃə(ɹ)

Noun

dispatcher (plural dispatchers)

1. Agent noun of dispatch; one who dispatches.
2. In a transportation organization, a person who controls the movements of vehicles.
   • 1994 October, Richard Isaac, “Bigot Busters v. Religious Right: Bigot Busters Win”, in Gay Community News, page 6:

     The organization of Decline to Sign involved trained teams sent out to where 608/610 supporters were gathering signatures, alerted by dispatchers operating a hotline to which anyone could call in—from a mall, the ferry terminals, holiday events, etc. when signature gatherers were sighted.

3. (computing) A piece of software responsible for assigning priorities and resources to tasks waiting to be scheduled.
4. (gambling, slang) Any die used for cheating, whether fraudulently weighted or bearing duplicate numbers.
   • 1897, Robert Frederick Foster, Foster's Complete Hoyle, page 565:

     First see that each die has all six figures upon it, for some dice are dispatchers, made with double numbers, […]

   • 2013, Lisa Plumley, The Honor-Bound Gambler, page 9:

     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.

Translations

one who dispatches (something)

• Bulgarian: експедитор (bg) m (ekspeditor)
• French: expéditeur (fr) m
• Greek: διανομέας (el) c (dianoméas)

  Ancient Greek: ἀποστολεύς m (apostoleús)

• Hungarian: küldő (hu), feladó (hu)
• Italian: mittente (it) m or f, spedizioniere m
• Macedonian: експеди́тор m (ekspedítor), шпедите́р m (špeditér)
• Romanian: expeditor (ro) m, trimițător (ro) m
• Russian: экспеди́тор (ru) m (ekspedítor)
• Spanish: despachador (es)

a person who controls the movements of vehicles

• Armenian: դիսպետչեր (hy) (dispetčʻer), կարգավար (hy) (kargavar)
• Azerbaijani: dispetçer
• Bulgarian: диспечер (bg) m (dispečer)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 調度 / 调度 (zh) (diàodù)

• Czech: dispečer m
• Finnish: liikenteenohjaaja, (railway, archaic) junasuorittaja, junanlähettäjä
• French: régulateur (fr) m
• German: (aviation) Flugdienstberater m, Dispatcher m, (railway) Fahrdienstleiter m
• Hungarian: diszpécser (hu), forgalomirányító (hu), menetirányító (hu)
• Ingrian: dispetcera
• Japanese: ディスパッチャ (disupatcha)
• Macedonian: ди́спечер m (díspečer), о́тправник m (ótpravnik)
• Romanian: dispecer (ro) m
• Russian: диспе́тчер (ru) m (dispétčer)
• Swedish: (railway) tågklarerare c

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

• Greek: επιλογέας (el) m (epilogéas)
• Italian: dispatcher (it) m

Further reading

• dispatcher on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Third Space, Thirdspace, redispatch, third space, thirdspace

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dis.pat.ʃe/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Somain)):

  (file)

Verb

dispatcher

1. to dispatch

Conjugation

Conjugation of dispatcher (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	dispatcher
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	dispatchant /dis.pat.ʃɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		dispatché /dis.pat.ʃe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	dispatche /dis.patʃ/	dispatches /dis.patʃ/	dispatche /dis.patʃ/	dispatchons /dis.pat.ʃɔ̃/	dispatchez /dis.pat.ʃe/	dispatchent /dis.patʃ/
	imperfect	dispatchais /dis.pat.ʃɛ/	dispatchais /dis.pat.ʃɛ/	dispatchait /dis.pat.ʃɛ/	dispatchions /dis.pat.ʃjɔ̃/	dispatchiez /dis.pat.ʃje/	dispatchaient /dis.pat.ʃɛ/
	past historic2	dispatchai /dis.pat.ʃe/	dispatchas /dis.pat.ʃa/	dispatcha /dis.pat.ʃa/	dispatchâmes /dis.pat.ʃam/	dispatchâtes /dis.pat.ʃat/	dispatchèrent /dis.pat.ʃɛʁ/
	future	dispatcherai /dis.pat.ʃə.ʁe/	dispatcheras /dis.pat.ʃə.ʁa/	dispatchera /dis.pat.ʃə.ʁa/	dispatcherons /dis.pat.ʃə.ʁɔ̃/	dispatcherez /dis.pat.ʃə.ʁe/	dispatcheront /dis.pat.ʃə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	dispatcherais /dis.pat.ʃə.ʁɛ/	dispatcherais /dis.pat.ʃə.ʁɛ/	dispatcherait /dis.pat.ʃə.ʁɛ/	dispatcherions /dis.pat.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/	dispatcheriez /dis.pat.ʃə.ʁje/	dispatcheraient /dis.pat.ʃə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	dispatche /dis.patʃ/	dispatches /dis.patʃ/	dispatche /dis.patʃ/	dispatchions /dis.pat.ʃjɔ̃/	dispatchiez /dis.pat.ʃje/	dispatchent /dis.patʃ/
	imperfect2	dispatchasse /dis.pat.ʃas/	dispatchasses /dis.pat.ʃas/	dispatchât /dis.pat.ʃa/	dispatchassions /dis.pat.ʃa.sjɔ̃/	dispatchassiez /dis.pat.ʃa.sje/	dispatchassent /dis.pat.ʃas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	dispatche /dis.patʃ/	—	dispatchons /dis.pat.ʃɔ̃/	dispatchez /dis.pat.ʃe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “dispatcher”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012