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arbitrate | American Dictionary

arbitrate
verb[ I/T ]
us/ˈɑr·bɪˌtreɪt/
to make a formal judgment to decide an argument:
[ T ]A referee was hired to arbitrate the dispute.

arbitrator

noun[ C ]us/ˈɑr·bɪˌtreɪ·t̬ər/(alsoarbiter)
The independent arbitrator has the approval of both sides in the dispute.

arbitrate | Business English

arbitrate
verb[ I or T ]
 LAWuk /ˈɑːbɪtreɪt/us
to make an official decision that ends a legal disagreement between people or groups without the need for the disagreement to be solved in court:
"We believe that a judge will ultimately say this should be arbitrated, not litigated, and we would comply with that," he said.
A LIFFE official is responsible for ensuring an orderly pit and for arbitrating in the case of disputed trades.
to agree to allow a qualified person to find an acceptable solution to a disagreement without the need for the disagreement to be solved in court:
Investors generally must agree when they open an account to arbitrate any dispute rather than go to court.

Examples of arbitrate

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As local courts are costly and unable to cope with the number of cases, village meetings to arbitrate in land matters have become more popular.
They also step in to arbitrate between squabbling contributors about the presentation of controversial topics.
It appeared to stand outside the realm of, and therefore free to arbitrate over, social conflict and political competition.
Interested parties each turned towards the seigniorial state to arbitrate their disputes.
Another was the social and geographical extension of a national public sphere : neighbourly conflicts were increasingly arbitrated impersonally and by supra-local authority.
We then examine to what extent equality of opportunity may help us arbitrate between opposing distributive principles.
Politics is the collective activity in which any group or community engages when it seeks to arbitrate competing claims of need.
The latter may arbitrate colour, materials, and massing, as well as grant the entitlements necessary to build anything at all.
The institutions have in some cases peacefully and conclusively arbitrated and managed conflicts, particularly ethnic conflicts.
Though institutions are limited in arbitrating conflict, they can provide linguistic and procedural parameters for political competition regarding contentious issues such as ethnicity.
Masters and constables arbitrated at a rate of about ten times that of commoners.
Through its agnostic impartiality, our notion of equal opportunity may help to arbitrate at least some ideological conflicts.
The lowland regional states have neither democratic traditions, nor disciplined ruling parties capable of arbitrating interest disputes.
The sequencer may take an unbounded time to arbitrate, but it is required to realise the mutual exclusion of the two grant signals.
In some cases, the specific institutions of the federal arrangement have arbitrated ethnic conflict peacefully.
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