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Finances in order, presumably
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referee
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context sports English) An umpire or judge; the official who makes sure the rules are followed during a game. 2 A person who settles a dispute. 3 A person who writes a letter of reference or provides a reference by phone call for someone. 4 An expert ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Referee \Ref`er*ee"\ (-?), n. One to whom a thing is referred; a person to whom a matter in dispute has been referred, in order that he may settle it. Syn: Judge; arbitrator; umpire. See Judge .
Usage examples of referee.
Young Conservative and Young Socialist and Libertarian literature, a group of Anachronists clustered on a lawn around two masked and gauntleted men with their wooden battle-swords, striking at one another while their referee or marshall or whatever they called him circled slowly around the fighters.
The referees there had agreed that 2nd Battalion and the Condaro had driven them off with fairly heavy Booly casualties and only modest casualties of their own.
Furthermore, Demere suggested that it was very unlikely that anything about the find would ever be published in a scientific journal, because the referees who review articles probably would not pass it.
Again he flew and landed, and again the referee signaled ippon intelligently.
It was an odd fight, with the Mother Thing gentle and loving and sensible and utterly firm, and Peewee throwing a tearful, bad-little-girl tantrumand me standing miserably by, not even refereeing.
The tiny referee was standing over Hoppie and yelling at Jackhammer Smit to get into a neutral corner, but the big man just stood there his chest heaving, waiting for Hoppie to rise so that he could finish him off.
The referee signalled for the fight to continue and Jackhammer Smit lumbered across the ring to finish Hoppie off.
As the referee moved in to break them up, Jackhammer Smit stepped backwards into him, sending the tiny referee arse over tip to the floor.
He was dressed in a white shirt, cream flannels and white tackies and looked more like a cricketer than a boxing referee.
A moment after I started watching, the solitary Zard, the referee as I found out, walked to the edge, and each of the groups walked to one of the opposing sides and then turned about to face the other.
This compelled the interference of the referee, who tore them apart, always assisted by Sandel, who had not yet learned to rest.
The next moment Sandel was in the clinch and holding on desperately while the referee strove to drag the two men apart.
With the Old Man and that fake referee offa my mind, I couldst give all my thoughts to the battle.
Questing, having introduced Septimus Falls to Gaunt, had adopted the manner of a sort of referee or ring-master.
Rawlins leaped three times backward with his shoulders hunched and his arms outflung like a man refereeing his own bloodletting.