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Arbitrator

Arbitrator \Ar"bi*tra`tor\, n. [L., fr. arbitrari: cf. F. arbitrateur.]

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

  2. 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.
    --Milton.

    Masters of their own terms and arbitrators of a peace.
    --Addison.

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

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
arbitrator

early 15c., from Old French arbitratour (13c.), from Latin arbitrator "a spectator, hearer, witness, judge," agent noun from past participle stem of arbitrari, from arbiter (see arbiter). The legal form of popular arbiter; in modern usage, an arbiter makes decisions of his own accord and is accountable to no one but himself; an arbitrator (early 15c.) decides issues referred to him by the parties.

Wiktionary
arbitrator

alt. A person to whom the authority to settle or judge a dispute is delegated. n. A person to whom the authority to settle or judge a dispute is delegated.

WordNet
arbitrator

n. someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue [syn: arbiter]

Usage examples of "arbitrator".

High Contracting Parties, before appealing to the Permanent Court of Arbitration, shall conclude a special Agreement defining clearly the matter in dispute and the scope of the powers of the Arbitrators, and fixing the periods for the formation of the Arbitral Tribunal and the several stages of the procedure.

Senate has approved treaties providing for the submission of specific matters to arbitration, leaving it to the President to determine exactly the form and scope of the matter to be arbitrated and to appoint the arbitrators.

Unlike mediation, arbitration requires you to give up control of your dispute to the arbitrator, who takes the place of judge and jury.

Lawyers, retired judges, and others sometimes promote themselves as independent arbitrators who hear cases on their own, outside of an arbitration service.

Van Boeschoten, Secretary of State to the Transvaal at that time, proposed arbitration, the arbitrator to be chosen by the President of the Swiss Confederation.

Government of the South African Republic proposes that the contested points of the Convention shall be submitted to arbitration, the arbitrator to be appointed by the President of the Swiss Confederation.

I will consider declaring the mediation closed and asking that an arbitrator be assigned to conduct a hearing and make an award.

When you are ready to choose an arbitrator for your case, the service will send you a list with the names of half a dozen or more arbitrators, sometimes with a brief biographical sketch of each.

Although cases heard by three arbitrators will obviously be more expensive than those heard by a single arbitrator, there are reasons why you may want to consider using a panel.

Very well, we will ask the head of a foreign State to appoint an arbitrator by whom they will be considered and annulled in the event of his sympathizing with you.

The third arbitrator would be a foreigner, and with this third arbitrator would rest the decision.

In other cases, arbitration may be unsatisfactory if the arbitrator, unlike the court, has no way of enforcing his decisions.

If the arbitrator decides that Joe is innocent, Tannahelp agrees to pay Joe and Dawn Defense an indemnity to make up for their time and trouble.

In practice, once anarcho-capitalist institutions were well established, protection agencies would anticipate such difficulties and arrange contracts in advance, before specific conflicts occurred, specifying the arbitrator who would settle them.

On what basis would the private arbitrator decide what acts were criminal and what their punishments should be?