adjudication

adjudicate | American Dictionary

adjudicate
verb[ T ]
us/əˈdʒud·ɪˌkeɪt/
to act as a judge of an argument:
He has adjudicated many labor disputes.

adjudicate | Business English

adjudicate
verb[ I or T ]
 LAWuk /əˈdʒuːdɪkeɪt/us
to make an official decision about something, especially about who is right in a disagreement:
A panel of expert judges has been appointed to adjudicate the community service awards.
adjudicate on sthArbitration panels will adjudicate on contract disputes.
adjudicate between sb and sbIt is the duty of government to adjudicate between the conflicting demands of different sections of society.
 adjudicate sb bankrupt
to legally and officially state that a person, company, or organization cannot pay its debts:
The operator of the steel plant was adjudicated bankrupt by the regional court on July 7.

Examples of adjudicate

adjudicate
The current data do not allow us to adjudicate among these possibilities, but they nevertheless mark an advance in understanding lexical development.
It is crucial that the original position be actually used (albeit fictionally) by the agents when adjudicating issues of fairness.
When the interests of two or more persons are opposed in some situation, it is the function of justice-reasoning to adjudicate the matter.
Nor can musicological analysis easily adjudicate the work's disputed truth claims.
Nor did this agency adjudicate the dispute that erupted between these parties.
In the realm of private autonomy, the rules of law imply a definition of what counts as 'voluntary', a definition that can be adjudicated.
To be blunt about it, lawyers are emotionally erratic and singularly ill-trained to adjudicate the nuances of friendship or the affective intensities between friends.
Additional experimentation is needed to adjudicate between these competing possibilities.
These techniques enable us, for the first time, to adjudicate between these alternative accounts of the spatial structure of participation.
The need for a new paradigm of adjudicating maternal/foetal issues is clear.
How successful are political institutions in adjudicating between the competing claims for recognition, inclusion and equality based on communal identities in multiethnic societies?
Need the issue be adjudicated to be resolved?
My claim is that he is putting forward that view as one adjudicating citizen among others, who hopes to engender a debate about political reform.
The first sentence describes the way in which r ules are used to adjudicate cases: rules are applied in an all-or-nothing way.
Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, we have no algorithm to adjudicate these conflicts.
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