adjudicate
The court withheld adjudication.
Everyone has the right to a fair trial and an impartial adjudication.

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adjudication | Business English

adjudication
noun[ C or U ]
 LAWuk /əˌdʒuːdɪˈkeɪʃən/us
the process or act of making an official decision about something, especially about who is right in a disagreement:
This a widely respected judge in his specialist field - the adjudication of planning disputes.
Your case is set to be heard by an adjudication panel.

Examples of adjudication

adjudication
The central bureaucracy was poorly equipped to deal with the stream of complaints and requests for adjudication and clarification pouring in from the provinces.
This idea is often confused with two others: the rationale of analogical reasoning in adjudication, and the value of coherence.
Ensembles are probably the class of algorithms which best approximates our conditions for adjudication.
In this paper, we present and evaluate a method for the automatic adjudication of disagreed word senses.
The judges can avoid the forced choice between sincerity and decisiveness by withdrawing from the business of adjudication.
What legal positivism must account for in terms of its own basic commitments is simply the fact that moral norms do figure importantly in adjudication.
Since the public needed to maintain its access to the king, careful adjudication was needed here.
The advantage of the property model is simply that it would allow courts to do the work of adjudication in the absence of moral consensus.
Both generate an illusion of a mechanical process of adjudication involving minimum human interpretation.
But it has, to date, failed to become the dominant paradigm, either in the legal academy or in legal adjudication.
This third aspect makes ensembles involving supervision unsuitable for the adjudication of disagreements resulting from the annotation of both unrestricted and domainoriented texts.
In what follows we present four medical cases in which multicultural concerns, in the context of other serious moral responsibilities, demanded a moral adjudication.
On this view of adjudication, an obvious rule of fairness is to give each individual equal weight in the determination of the reference preference.
To purchase a property, one first had to claim it via adjudication before a notary.
A third way of challenging my claim that the judges are lying is to emphasize the per formative aspect of adjudication.
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