train dispatcher

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   a railroad employer who is in charge of a railway yard

   Synonymsyardmastertrainmaster

   Broaderdispatchertrainman

Questions about train dispatcher

What does train dispatcher mean?

train dispatcher means "a railroad employer who is in charge of a railway yard".

What is another word for train dispatcher?

Close synonyms include yardmaster, trainmaster. 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 train dispatcher a common word?

train dispatcher is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.