dispatcher

名词 n.
/ˈdɪs.pætʃ.ə(ɹ)/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Agent noun of dispatch; one who dispatches. agent,form-of
  2. In a transportation organization, a person who controls the movements of vehicles.
    — 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. A piece of software responsible for assigning priorities and resources to tasks waiting to be scheduled.
  4. Any die used for cheating, whether fraudulently weighted or bearing duplicate numbers. slang
    — First see that each die has all six figures upon it, for some dice are dispatchers, made with double numbers, […]

词形变化

dispatchers plural

词源

Etymology tree
English dispatch
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English dispatcher
From dispatch + -er.
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