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/ˈɑrbɪtrˌeɪtər/ Listen

noun

Arbitrator n.

A person, or one of two or more persons, chosen by parties who have a controversy, to determine their differences. See Arbitration.

One who has the power of deciding or prescribing without control; a ruler; a governor. "Though Heaven be shut, And Heaven's high Arbitrators sit secure." "Masters of their own terms and arbitrators of a peace."

Synonyms: Judge; umpire; referee; arbiter. See Judge.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... my arbitrator, astonishment grief, and a desire to retain his self-possession, strong contending in his countenance and voice, "do you fix on this young man as ...

— Caleb Williams - Things As They Are • William Godwin

... this 'argument' didn't degenerate into a clash," said the doctor seriously. "You know how it tires Mother to have to hear these quarrels, Rosemary, and to be constantly called upon to act as arbitrator." ...

— Rainbow Hill • Josephine Lawrence

... certainly to be more conscientious, than most Christians. They all believe in one God— Manitou, the author of good, and worship him as such; but believing that human nature is too gross to communicate with the Arbitrator of all things, they pray generally through the intervention of the elements or even of certain animals, in the same manner that the Catholics ...

— Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet • Captain Marryat

... his troubles. She had certainly arrived at the eleventh hour, and might just as well have presented herself earlier; but Destiny, the playwright of the Universe, always decrees that her dramas should play their appointed time and never permits her arbitrator to appear until immediately before the fall of the green curtain. So far as the Beorminster drama was concerned, the crucial moment was at hand, the actor—or rather actress—who was to remedy all ...

— The Bishop's Secret • Fergus Hume

... of State to the Transvaal at that time, proposed arbitration, the arbitrator to be chosen by the President ...

— Boer Politics • Yves Guyot

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