arbiter
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6.7
- noun
- /ˈɑːrbɪtər/
:
árbitro
- The judge acted as an arbiter, helping the two sides come to an agreement.
- the final arbiter
- the ultimate arbiter
- arbiter of truth
The brain is the ultimate arbiter of your food decisions.
- The brain is the ultimate arbiter of your food decisions.
- Do they want to be the the arbiters of what is true?
- You cannot have the government being the arbiter of truth.
- In fact, you are the best arbiter of of what your mood is.
- In the Bedouin tradition, the Sheikh is an arbiter, a settler of disputes.
- Well, they want to be the arbiters, the gatekeepers of true public opinion.
- How scary is that to feel like they are the arbiter of your worth?
- They're, they're often nice people, but they, they don't, they're not the real arbiters of, of taste.
- And in most people, the head is the arbiter of perception and it's the arbiter of action.
- I think you're since the creation of Wolfram Alpha have been a kind of arbiter of truth at a large scale.
- Your Navy should be the force there patrolling the waters and serving as the arbiter.
- So we're constantly connecting ourselves and what we're trying to strive for to some kind of external arbiter of success.
- Why is it that we've allowed the Chinese Communist Party to be the primary arbiter of what content trends and what content gets suppressed?
Examples
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You cannot have the government being the arbiter of truth.
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State sovereignty implies that each state is the final arbiter of its actions within its borders.
Academic text (1992) -
The market, though, remains the final arbiter of success or failure.
Academic text (2012) -
And it was the job of the political officer to be the final arbiter of policy.
Fiction book (2002) -
It's a matter of taste, on which you are in no way the final arbiter.
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Rather, the final arbiter of the value of a new product or service is the marketplace.
Academic text (1995) -
The British State through the period of the Troubles, through the conflict, tried to portray themselves as a neutral arbiter.
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Students don't, and we must be the arbiters of how the curriculum works.
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As an arbiter in the dispute, she made a decision that both parties accepted.
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In the conference, he served as the arbiter, ensuring that each view was represented fairly.
Synonyms
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6.7
A person who hears a dispute outside court and makes a decision both sides must accept
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7.7
A person who decides a disagreement between people or groups
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8.7
A person like a judge or jury who decides what happened in a legal case
A person who makes an official decision in a court or hearing
A judge or court with power to hear and decide criminal cases
A person who listens and decides who is right in a dispute or competition
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Etymology
Arbiter comes from a Latin word that meant 'judge' or 'witness' and is the same root as arbitrate. So an arbiter is someone chosen to 'settle' a dispute or make the final decision.