配車係
解説 Definition
dispatchers は dispatcher（配車係、指令係）の複数形です。タクシー、配送、緊急対応などで、車両や人員を現場へ向かわせる担当者を指します。
People whose job is to receive requests and direct vehicles, workers, or emergency personnel to the appropriate locations. Dispatchers commonly work in taxi, delivery, transport, police, fire, and medical-response services.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
dispatcher「配車係・指令係」に複数の -s が付いた規則的な複数形で、発音は語末が /z/ になる。dispatch「送り出す」＋ -er「する人」と分け、タクシー、配送車、救急隊などを必要な現場へ割り当てる人々を想像する。emergency dispatchers、taxi dispatchers が定番表現。
Break dispatchers into dispatch, “send or direct,” plus -er, “a person who does an action,” and plural -s. A dispatcher directs a taxi, truck, technician, or emergency crew to where it is needed; dispatchers means more than one such worker. The plural ending is pronounced /z/ because dispatcher ends in a voiced sound. Learn the word through common combinations such as emergency dispatchers, taxi dispatchers, and police dispatchers. Unlike drivers or responders, dispatchers often coordinate movements and communicate instructions from a control center rather than traveling to the scene themselves.
例文
The dispatchers sent two taxis to the station.
配車係たちは駅にタクシーを2台向かわせました。
Emergency dispatchers must stay calm during difficult calls.
緊急対応の指令係は、難しい通報の間も落ち着いていなければなりません。
The company hired more dispatchers for the busy season.
その会社は繁忙期に向けて配車係を増員しました。
dispatchers の類義語・関連語
dispatchers の語源・成り立ち Etymology
dispatchers は dispatch「送り出す・手配する」に -er「する人」と複数の -s が付いた語です。dispatch はイタリア語系を経て広まり、「もつれを解いて素早く処理する」感覚から配車係の意味につながります。関連語は dispatch, expedition。
Dispatchers is the regular plural of dispatcher. Dispatcher is formed from dispatch plus the agent suffix -er, meaning a person who dispatches. Dispatch entered English through Romance-language forms and historically carried the idea of handling a matter promptly or sending something away without delay. The occupational noun came to identify a person who sends, assigns, or directs vehicles and personnel, especially from a central office.
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