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train dispatcher

noun

Definition of train dispatcher

: a railroad employee who directs the movement of trains within a division and coordinates their movement from one division to another

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 Wendt also thanked the train dispatchers and 911 dispatchers in Kenton County who helped. — Chris Mayhew, Cincinnati.com, "Boy rescued from Norfolk Southern train in Crescent Springs," 6 July 2018 Supervisors weren’t confirming that workers were following procedure, and track workers weren’t given vital pieces of equipment that would have warned a train dispatcher that there were men on the tracks. — Jason Laughlin, Philly.com, "Amtrak worker fired for 2016 Chester derailment sues," 30 Jan. 2018

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First Known Use of train dispatcher

1855, in the meaning defined above

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