dispatcher

Noun

dispatcher (plural dispatchers)

1. 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.1994 October, Richard Isaac, “Bigot Busters v. Religious Right: Bigot Busters Win”, in Gay Community News, page 6
2. A piece of software responsible for assigning priorities and resources to tasks waiting to be scheduled.
3. (slang) Any die used for cheating, whether fraudulently weighted or bearing duplicate numbers.
   • First see that each die has all six figures upon it, for some dice are dispatchers, made with double numbers, […]1897, Robert Frederick Foster, Foster's Complete Hoyle, page 565
   • 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.2013, Lisa Plumley, The Honor-Bound Gambler, page 9