Dasher

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• Americanized form of German Dascher.
• Possibly a habitational name from Dasher near Kippen in Stirlingshire.

Dasher (plural Dashers)

1. A surname.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Dasher”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 414.
• Forebears

From dasher.

• (reindeer): First attested in the 1823 poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas”.

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Dasher

1. The first reindeer of Santa Claus.

Dasher (plural Dashers)

1. An employee of DoorDash, a San Francisco–based company that operates an online food ordering and food delivery platform.

   Synonym: DoorDasher

   • 2019, Mary L. Gray, Siddharth Suri, “The Double Bottom Line”, in Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, part III (Talking Back to Robots), page 157:

     DoorDash carries a commercial auto insurance policy that covers up to $1 million in bodily injury and/or property damage of its Dashers, who are considered third parties. Any accident that occurs while on an active delivery (in possession of goods to be delivered) qualifies the Dasher for coverage.

   • 2022, Jamie K. McCallum, Essential: How the Pandemic Transformed the Long Fight for Worker Justice, Basic Books, →ISBN:

     In January 2021, for example, grocery chains Vons, Pavilions, and Albertsons came to an agreement with DoorDash to fire their delivery staff—which had previously worked full-time with benefits—and replace them with an army of subcontracted “Dashers.”

   • 2023, Jeffrey D. Camm, James J. Cochran, Michael J. Fry, Jeffrey W. Ohlmann, Business Analytics, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 791:

     Formulate a linear programming model to minimize the sum of the times of assignments made such that no Dasher is assigned to more than one order and each order must be assigned to exactly one Dasher.

   • 2023 March 30, “DoorDash Policy Exec Cheryl Young Talks Helping Disabled Dashers”, in Forbes‎, Forbes:

     In it, the company found 18% of Dashers said they have “a disability or other chronic condition”—which, DoorDash said, is four times greater than the mainstream workforce.

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