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Plural of dispatcher

regular plural

The plural of dispatcher is dispatchers.

Forms of dispatcher

Singulardispatcher /ˈdɪs.pætʃ.ə(ɹ)/
Pluraldispatchers
Countablecountable

Dispatchers in a sentence

  • 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
  • To officers and dispatchers it also connotes "good police work" and "crime work" that is honorable and important.1992, Peter K. Manning, Organizational Communication, →ISBN, page 63. From the entry undercode
  • The system benefits include reduced delivery costs, increased vehicle use, and improved route decision making by dispatchers and routers.1990, Mary Kay Allen, Omar Keith Helferich, Putting Expert Systems to Work in Logistics, page 66. From the entry router
  • Obviously, the production control department might consist of one man or it might occupy a score of production control experts: routers, schedulers, expediters, and dispatchers.1963, Louis J. von Rago, Production Analysis and Control, page 476. From the entry router

Meaning of dispatcher

  1. noun In a transportation organization, a person who controls the movements of vehicles.
  2. noun A piece of software responsible for assigning priorities and resources to tasks waiting to be scheduled.
  3. noun Any die used for cheating, whether fraudulently weighted or bearing duplicate numbers.

Full definition of dispatcher

Questions about the plural of dispatcher

What is the plural of dispatcher?
The plural of dispatcher is dispatchers.
Is dispatcher countable?
Dispatcher is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dispatcher (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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