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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈdɪs.pætʃ.ə(ɹ)/
• 韻: -ætʃə(ɹ)

名詞

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.

Further reading

• dispatcher on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

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