Crossword clues for arbiter
arbiter
- Judge a Republican, one using his teeth
- Judge a bishop pinched something from the snack bar
- Dispute settler
- Decision maker
- Strike mediator
- Dispute decider
- Union grievance figure
- Dispute go-between
- Umpire, for instance
- Someone with the power to settle the matter
- Settlement figure
- One with the power to settle a matter
- One who settles arguments
- Mosquito from the state nicknamed Land of Opportunity?
- Labor go-between
- Judge of a sort
- Beef inspector?
- Authoritative sort
- Umpire, for one
- Judge in a dispute
- One who makes calls
- Decisive one
- Ruling party?
- Someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue
- Someone with the power to settle matters at will
- Referee
- Grievance resolver
- Go-between of a sort
- American tribe ordered to capture republican judge
- One who settles disputes
- Referee, endlessly hard, one using teeth
- Judge's rare outburst interrupted by boring part
- Judge's a right attack dog, perhaps
- Judge rarebit cooked
- Judge alligator's skin by similarly carnivorous animal?
- Judge a royal nipper
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Arbiter \Ar"bi*ter\, n. [L. arbiter; ar- (for ad) + the root of betere to go; hence properly, one who comes up to look on.]
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A person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them.
Note: In modern usage, arbitrator is the technical word.
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Any person who has the power of judging and determining, or ordaining, without control; one whose power of deciding and governing is not limited.
For Jove is arbiter of both to man.
--Cowper.Syn: Arbitrator; umpire; director; referee; controller; ruler; governor.
Arbiter \Ar"bi*ter\, v. t. To act as arbiter between. [Obs.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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."
Wiktionary
n. 1 A person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them; an arbitrator. 2 {{context|with (term of English)|lang=en}} A person or object having the power of judge and determining, or ordaining, without control; one whose power of deciding and governing is not limited. 3 (context electronics English) A component in circuitry that allocates scarce resources. vb. (context transitive English) To act as arbiter.
WordNet
n. someone with the power to settle matters at will; "she was the final arbiter on all matters of fashion" [syn: supreme authority]
someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue [syn: arbitrator]
Wikipedia
An arbiter or arbitrator is a person by whose decision the parties to a dispute agree to be bound in arbitration.
Arbiter may refer to:
In the Halo science fiction universe, the Arbiter is a ceremonial, religious, and political rank bestowed upon alien Covenant Elites. In the 2004 video game Halo 2, the rank is given to a disgraced commander as a way to atone for his failures. Although the Arbiter is intended to die serving the Covenant leadership, the High Prophets, he survives his missions and the Prophets' subsequent betrayal of his kind. When he learns that the Prophets' plans would doom all sentient life in the galaxy to extinction, the Arbiter allies with the Covenant's enemies—humanity—and stops the ringworld Halo from being activated. The Arbiter is a playable character in Halo 2 and its 2007 sequel Halo 3; a different Arbiter appears in the 2009 real-time strategy game Halo Wars, which takes place 20 years before the events of the main trilogy.
The appearance of the Arbiter in Halo 2 and the change in perspective from the main human protagonist Master Chief to a former enemy was a plot twist Halo developer Bungie kept highly secret. The character's name was changed from " Dervish" after concerns that the name reinforced a perceived United States-versus- Islam allegory in the game's plot. Award-winning actor Keith David lends his voice to the character in Halo 2, 3 and 5, while David Sobolov voices the Arbiter of Halo Wars.
The Arbiter has appeared in three series of action figures and other collectibles and marketing in addition to appearances in the games. Bungie intended the sudden point of view switch to a member of the Covenant as a plot twist that no one would have seen coming, but the character in particular and the humanization of the Covenant in general was not evenly received by critics and fans. Computer and Video Games derided the Arbiter's missions as "crap bits" in Halo 2. Conversely, IGN lamented the loss of the Arbiter's story in Halo 3 and missed the added dimension the character provided to the story.
Arbiters are electronic devices that allocate access to shared resources.
Usage examples of "arbiter".
Congressional legislation, thus affords some protection from state legislation inimical to the national commerce, and that in such cases, where Congress has not acted, this Court, and not the state legislature, is under the commerce clause the final arbiter of the competing demands of state and national interests.
Anthony Pelletier, the doyenne of Hobe Sound, was the arbiter of all social d.
Like all girls, you spend your time fawning over the harridans who have established themselves as arbiters of taste.
In my own land I was the son of the hereditary gerefa, the local arbiter of the law, but I wanted to know more.
Beaumont in the annals of Ironwood Ranch, and that my transgression, however minor, would be duly reported to Louise Crenshaw, the final arbiter of client affairs.
In 1861 he accepted the post of Arbiter of the Peace, a magistrature that had been introduced to supervise the carrying into life of the Emancipation Act.
Alys Vorpatril was widely acknowledged as the premier social arbiter of Vorbarr Sultana, not least because of her frequent duties at the Imperial Residence as official welcomer for wifeless, motherless, sisterless Emperor Gregor.
The visitor from the night was in the presence of Yat Soon, the arbiter of Chinatown.
I, Yat Soon the arbiter, would then declare that you, The Shadow, had been an instrument in its return.
As arbiter of Chinatown, Yat Soon was well acquainted with the devious motives that actuated those within the boundaries of the Oriental district.
But Yat Soon had received no word from The Shadow since that one visit in which the arbiter had given his veiled approval of the quest for the Joss.
He was experiencing that tactful treatment which had enabled Yat Soon to gain his fame as arbiter.
CHAPTER XII THE CRAFT OF DOCTOR TAM WHILE Yat Soon, the arbiter, was still pondering on the facts presented by the mandarin, Shan Kwan, two men were guarding the Fate Joss in its obscure abode.
How did the millisecond electronic decision-making inside the telephone switch become a nationwide arbiter of resources?
Dionusos, as Sovereign of Nature, or the sensuous world personified, is official Arbiter of the Mysteries, and guide of the soul, which he introduces into the body and dismisses from it.