Arbitrate Definition

ärbĭ-trāt
arbitrated, arbitrates, arbitrating
verb
arbitrated, arbitrates, arbitrating
To judge or decide in or as in the manner of an arbitrator.
Arbitrate a dispute between neighbors.
American Heritage
To give to an arbitrator to decide; settle by arbitration.
Webster's New World
To act as an arbitrator (in a dispute, between persons)
Webster's New World
To submit to settlement or judgment by arbitration.
Management and labor agreed to arbitrate their remaining differences.
American Heritage
To decide (a dispute) as an arbitrator.
Webster's New World
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Antonyms:
  • let ride

Origin of Arbitrate

  • From Latin arbitratus, past participle of arbitrari (“to be a witness, act as umpire”), from arbiter (“umpire”); see arbiter.

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin arbitrārī arbitrāt- to give judgment from arbiter arbitr- arbiter arbiter

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Arbitrate Sentence Examples

  • This led to the establishment of podests, who represented a compromise between two radically hostile parties in the city, and whose business it was to arbitrate and keep the peace between them.

  • As this dispute was still unsettled when the parliament met at Leicester in February 1426, Bedford and the lords undertook to arbitrate.

  • The local modem would then arbitrate with the distant modem for use of the telephone line.

  • The Persians claimed that the boundary was the old bed of the river, the Afghans that it was the new bed; and in accordance with the treaty of 1857 both parties asked the British government to arbitrate.

  • It is her intention to travel to the capital at Coruscant to ask the Republic's government to arbitrate the dispute.

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