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dispatcher

/dih-spach-er/US // dɪˈspætʃ ər //

调度员,派遣员,调解员,调度人

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who dispatches.
    • : a person who oversees the departure of trains, airplanes, buses, etc., as for a transportation company or railroad.
    • : dispatchers, Slang. a fraudulently made pair of dice; loaded dice.

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Examples

  • They pointed to a shortage of officers and dispatchers that resulted in long delays for 911 calls.

  • After the dispatcher didn’t seem to share his urgency, Trawick added, falsely, that there was a fire.

  • When a police dispatcher sent officers Davis and Thompson to respond, the dispatcher noted that the address “was a sensitive location,” apparently referring to past mental health calls there.

  • Those in essential jobs — police officers, nurses and doctors, EMTs, dispatchers and members of the military — are used to going without holiday meals with family.

  • “It’s beyond their hands,” Reed told the dispatcher, according to a recording obtained through a public records request.

  • And then the voice of a dispatcher crackles over the radio with those alarming words.

  • But Brooklyn was still Brooklyn, and at 1:45 a.m. a dispatcher could be heard saying on the police radio, “Shots fired by an MOS.”

  • Bureaucratic inertia is, by long tradition, the most efficient dispatcher of scandals.

  • At 12:02 p.m., Wilson called in his location and asked the dispatcher for backup.

  • The 911 dispatcher patched in an ambulance dispatcher, saying, “I can hear him hitting her now.”

  • As the boy turned he saw the big dispatcher's head sink between his arms on the table.

  • The head braves dashed in on Tom Porter, sitting in the dispatcher's office up-stairs.

  • The chief dispatcher looked at him steadily a long moment before answering.

  • I walked with the chief dispatcher into the airport waitingroom, dull with the listless air, not of unoccupancy, but disuse.

  • I was relieved from further ramblings by the arrival of the bus which was as laughable as the chief dispatcher's philosophizing.