dispatcher

1. 1.

   the official who signals the beginning of a race or competition

   Synonymsstarter

   Broaderofficial
2. 2.

   employee of a transportation company who controls the departures of vehicles according to weather conditions and in the interest of efficient service

   Broaderemployee

   Narroweryardmaster

Other forms of dispatcher

plural

dispatchers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dispatcher

What does dispatcher mean?

dispatcher means "the official who signals the beginning of a race or competition". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dispatcher?

dispatcher has 3 syllables: di-spat-cher. The stress falls on "spat". In IPA it is /dɪˈspætʃɚ/.

What is another word for dispatcher?

Close synonyms include starter. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dispatcher a common word?

dispatcher is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.