DISPATCHING

Definition: DISPATCHING

DISPATCHING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Dispatch

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "DISPATCHING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Specialty Definition: DISPATCHING

Domain	Definition
Energy	To schedule and control the generation and delivery of electric power. (references)
Post & Telecom	A division of the supply current between a number of ranch circuits leading to different points. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: DISPATCHING

English words defined with "DISPATCHING": Dispatchment ♦ Referendary. (references)

Specialty definitions using "DISPATCHING": Bobbin ♦ CHIEF DISPATCHER, CHIEF LOAD DISPATCHER, chief technician, COMMUNICATIONS ELECTRICIAN SUPERVISOR ♦ demand actuated, demand responsive, DIRECTOR, TRANSPORTATION, DISPATCHER, RELAY, dispatching system ♦ ELECTRIC POWER LINE EXAMINER ♦ GENERAL CAR SUPERVISOR, YARD, GENERATION DISPATCH ANDCONTROL, Grasshopper ♦ MANAGER, BUS TRANSPORTATION, MANAGER, FLIGHT CONTROL, MANAGER, FLIGHT OPERATIONS, Motorola, Inc. ♦ superintendent, city plant, SUPERINTENDENT, CONCRETE-MIXING PLANT, SUPERINTENDENT, DISTRIBUTION II, superintendent, gas distribution, superintendent, operations division, SUPERVISOR, ADVERTISING-DISPATCH CLERKS, SUPERVISOR, TELECOMMUNICATOR, system operator, chief ♦ TRAFFIC INSPECTOR, transportation inspector ♦ WATER-SERVICE DISPATCHER. (references)

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Commercial Usage: DISPATCHING

Domain	Title
Books	The Handbook of Ready-Mixed Concrete Dispatching (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: DISPATCHING

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Dispatching news. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: DISPATCHING

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		This limitation is stipulated by the dispatching company. (references)
		The Commercial Service in Casablanca is prepared to assist in collecting and dispatching bidding documents. (references)
		KEPCO is renovating the facility operations by introducing remote distribution-control systems, using high-quality equipment, and applying highly reliable power dispatching methods to decrease failures in the power distribution systems. (references)
Economic History	Bahrain	The opening of warehouses and after-sales offices in the Gulf can help efficient dispatching of goods, thus enlarging the client base. (references)
	Armenia	Power Delivery: The World Bank and Japanese Government have approved a $97 million credit for an Electricity Transmission and Dispatching program. (references)
	Slovak Rep	The high-voltage transmission system and dispatching center should form a joint stock company Slovenska Energeticka Prenosova Sustava, which will be fully owned by the government. (references)
Political Economy	Brazil	It has played an important role in international collective security efforts -- from sending an expeditionary force to the Allied campaign in Italy during World War II to dispatching a battalion to Angola as UN Peacekeepers from 1995-1997 and coordinating the Military Observer Mission on the Peru-Ecuador border (MOMEP). (references)
Travel	Haiti	During 1999 two new taxicab companies began operating in Port-au-Prince, using radio controlled dispatching service. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: DISPATCHING

"DISPATCHING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 79.49% of the time. "DISPATCHING" is used about 39 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	79.49%	31	62,296
Noun (singular)	10.26%	4	175,879
Adjective (general or positive)	7.69%	3	202,518
Noun (proper)	2.56%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	39	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DISPATCHING

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
dispatching software	30
dispatching	23
computer aided dispatching	8
dispatching job	7
service dispatching software	7
dispatching priority	6
911 dispatching	6
dispatching police	5
truck dispatching	3
dispatching learn truck	3
wireless dispatching software	3
dispatching ems software	3
dispatching program	2
dispatching enforcement law opportunity	2
dispatching emergency medical	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: DISPATCHING

Language		Translations for "DISPATCHING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		派遣 (Despatch, Dispatched). (various references)

Danish		togledelse (control system), fordeling (distribution). (various references)

Dutch		dispatching systeem (control system), werkuitgifte, trein-en locomotiefdienstregeling (control system). (various references)

French		distribution (dispensation, distribution, division), dispatching, ventilation (distribution), répartition du travail, répartition (distribution, dividing, division), régulation, largage, gestion dynamique, exploitation dynamique, expédition (dispatch), expéditeur (dispatcher). (various references)

German		Zugleitung (control system). (various references)

Greek		ρύθμιση της κυκλοφορίας (control system), διανομή (allocation, apportionment, assignation, delivery, dispensation, distribution). (various references)

Hebrew		ש�'ור (consignment, current, dispatch, fluent, launching, send off, sending). (various references)

Italian		disbrigo (despatch, despatching, dispatch, settlement), dirigenza centrale (control system), spedizione (consignment, despatch, dispatch, expedition, forwarding, forwarding agency, posting, programme, remittance, sending, shipment, shipping, transmission). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		派出 (sending out). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		はしゅつ (sending out). (various references)

Korean		파견 (Delegating, Despatch, Detaching, Dispatch). (various references)

Pig Latin		ispatchingday

Romanian		expediţie (campaign, excursion, expedition, sending). (various references)

Spanish		distribución (allocation, breakdown, delivery, distribution, handout, issue, ladle, range, vending), regulación de la circulación de trenes (control system). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "DISPATCHING"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "DISPATCHING" (pronounced di'spa"khing)
5	-p a" kh i ng	patching.
4	-a" kh i ng	attaching, catching, hatching, latching, matching, scratching, snatching.
3	-kh i ng	approaching, arching, beaching, belching, bleaching, branching, breaching, broaching, bunching, clinching, clutching, coaching, crouching, crunching, ditching, drenching, encroaching, enriching, entrenching, etching, fetching, flinching, hitching, impeaching, inching, itching, launching, leaching, lunching, lurching, lynching, marching, mulching, munching, overarching, overreaching, pinching, pitching, poaching, preaching, punching, quenching, ranching, reaching, researching, retouching, retrenching, scorching, screeching, searching, sketching, slouching, snitching, squelching, stanching, stitching, stretching, switching, teaching, torching, touching, twitching, unflinching, vouching, watching, witching, wrenching.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: DISPATCHING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-g-h-i-i-n-p-s-t"
	-2 letters: nightcaps, tachinids.
	-3 letters: antiship, diphasic, dispatch, ditching, itchings, nightcap, patching, pitching, scathing, sphingid, tachinid.
	-4 letters: actings, cashing, casting, catnips, chasing, chiding, chitins, dashing, discant, discing, dishing, dishpan, distain, distich, gnathic, hasping, hasting, hatpins, hidings, histing, indicts, insight, itching, pachisi, pandits, pashing, pasting, phasing, pianist, pidgins, piscina, pishing, pithing, sandpit, scaping, shading, shaping, shindig.
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