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| Domain | Definition |
Economics | One employed to attend to the shipping of products on schedule. Source: European Union. (references) |
Occupations | Compiles and maintains material and parts inventory and status information to expedite movement of material and parts between production areas, according to predetermined production schedules and order priorities: Reads production schedules, inventory reports, and work orders to determine type and quantity of materials required, availability of stock, and order priority. Confers with department supervisors to determine overdue material and parts and to inform supervisors of material status. Locates and distributes materials to specified production areas, manually or using handcart, handtruck, or forklift. Records and maintains perpetual inventory of quantity and type of materials and parts received, stocked, and distributed, manually or using computer. Compiles and maintains records, such as material inventory records, production records, and timecards, manually or using computer. May direct INDUSTRIAL-TRUCK OPERATOR (any industry) 921.683-050 or MATERIAL HANDLER (any industry) 929.687-030 to expedite transfer of materials from stock area to production areas. May examine material received, verify part numbers, and check discrepancies, such as damaged or unmarked parts. May compare work ticket specifications to material used at work stations to verify appropriate assignment. May drive truck to outlying work areas to check status of orders or to deliver materials. (references) |
| Contacts vendors and shippers to ensure that merchandise, supplies, and equipment are forwarded on specified shipping date: Contacts vendor by mail, phone, or visit to verify shipment of goods on specified date. Communicates with transportation company to preclude delays in transit. May arrange for distribution of materials upon arrival. May contact vendors to requisition materials. May inspect products for quality and quantity to ensure adherence to specifications. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: EXPEDITER |
| Specialty definitions using "EXPEDITER": flight follower ♦ imbalance charge ♦ REMELT-FURNACE EXPEDITER ♦ TRIP FOLLOWER. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The expediter. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | To get the wheels turning, I have appointed an emergency housing expediter. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "EXPEDITER" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "EXPEDITER" is used about 3 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 |
expediter | 21 |
expediter truck | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "EXPEDITER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shtypës (ejector, leaden, oppressive, oppressor, pounder, repressive, suppressor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | ordonnancier (expeditor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | προμηθευτήσ (caterer, furnisher, procurer, provider, provisioner, purveyor, supplier), αποστολέασ (consigner, dispatcher, sender). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | siettetõ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | expediteray expedidor (despatcher, dispatcher, forwarder, mailer, sender, shipper). (various references) диспетчер (despatcher, dispatcher, supervisor, traffic controller, traffic manager). (various references) otpremnik (sender, shipper, transmitter). (various references) expedidor (dispatcher, forwarder, shipper, shipping agent, shipping clerk). (various references) диспетчер (dispatcher, operator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "EXPEDITER": expediters. (additional references) | |
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"EXPEDITER" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: espeditor, exedite, expadite, expaditer, expdedite, expedeate, expedire, expedit, expedity, expedize, expenditre, experdite, expetite, expidite, expiditor, xpedite. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-i-p-r-t-x" | |
-1 letter: expedite, experted. | |
-2 letters: exerted, expired, petered, preedit. | |
-3 letters: deeper, dexter, dieter, exited, expert, expire, peered, peerie, perdie, redipt, reedit, retied, tiered, trepid. | |
-4 letters: deter, dexie, dript, eerie, eider, exert, peter, preed, pride, pried, redip, retie, riped, tepee, tepid, tired, treed, tried, tripe. | |
-5 letters: deep, deer, deet, dere, diet, dipt, dire, dirt, dite, dree, drip, edit. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-e-i-p-r-t-x" | |
+1 letter: expediters, expertized, preexisted. | |
+2 letters: expenditure. | |
+3 letters: expenditures, experimented, extemporised, extemporized, hyperexcited. | |
+4 letters: demultiplexer, overexploited. | |
+5 letters: demultiplexers, hyperextending. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 58 50 45 44 49 54 45 52 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -..- .--. . -.. .. - . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01011000 01010000 01000101 01000100 01001001 01010100 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E X P E D I T E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0058 0050 0045 0044 0049 0054 0045 0052 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)395850393843543952 |
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