arbiter
pronunciation
How to pronounce arbiter in British English:
UK [ˈɑ:bɪtə(r)]
How to pronounce arbiter in American English:
US [ˈɑrbɪtə(r)]
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- Noun:
- someone with the power to settle matters at will
- someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue
Word Origin
- arbiter (n.)
- late 14c., from Old French arbitre or directly from Latin arbiter "one who goes somewhere (as witness or judge)," in classical Latin used of spectators and eye-witnesses, in law, "he who hears and decides a case, a judge, umpire, mediator;" from ad- "to" (see ad-) + baetere "to come, go." The specific sense of "one chosen by two disputing parties to decide the matter" is from 1540s. The earliest form of the word attested in English is the fem. noun arbitress (mid-14c.) "a woman who settles disputes."
Example
- 1. The arbiter is a junior judge , denny chin .
- 2. The fund is supposed to be an impartial arbiter of good economic policy .
- 3. The imf is the natural arbiter of such issues .
- 4. In egypt , the egyptian army is playing that arbiter role .
- 5. The real point of the two-thirds parliamentary hurdle may be to impress the final arbiter : the constitutional court .