Antonyms for arbiter
ˈɑr bɪ tərar·biter

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1. arbiter

   A judge, in the legal sense, is a judicial officer appointed or elected to preside in courts of law, and to decide legal questions duly brought before him; the name is sometimes given to other legally constituted officers; as, the judges of election; in other relations, any person duly appointed to pass upon the merits of contestants or of competing articles may be called a judge; as, the judges at an agricultural fair, or at a race-track; in the widest sense, any person who has good capacity for judging is called a judge; as, a person is said to be a judge of pictures, or a good judge of a horse, etc. In most games the judge is called an umpire; as, the umpire of a game of ball or cricket. A referee is appointed by a court to decide disputed matters between litigants; an arbitrator is chosen by the contending parties to decide matters in dispute without action by a court. In certain cases an umpire is appointed by a court to decide where arbitrators disagree. Arbiter, with its suggestion of final and absolute decision, has come to be used only in a high or sacred sense; as, war must now be the arbiter; the Supreme Arbiter of our destinies. The judges of certain courts, as the United States Supreme Court, are technically known as justices.

   Synonyms:
   arbitrator, judge, justice, referee, umpire

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1. arbiter

   Antonyms:
   appellant, claimant, disputant, litigant

   Synonyms:
   arbitrator, judge, umpire, moderator, director, referee, adjudicator

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1. arbiter, supreme authoritynoun

   someone with the power to settle matters at will

   "she was the final arbiter on all matters of fashion"

   Synonyms:
   arbitrator, umpire, supreme authority

2. arbiter, arbitrator, umpirenoun

   someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue

   "the critic was considered to be an arbiter of modern literature"; "the arbitrator's authority derived from the consent of the disputants"; "an umpire was appointed to settle the tax case"

   Synonyms:
   arbitrator, ump, umpire, supreme authority

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ARBITER

   Synonyms:
   Arterial Biology for the Investigation of the Treatment Effects of Reducing cholesterol

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1. troublemaker

   not resolving situations in peaceful manner

   the mother wasn't a good arbiter between her daughter's and husband's disagreement.

   Submitted by rinat on January 23, 2016  

How to use arbiter in a sentence?

1. Gary Gardner:

   National agricultural endowments need to be protected, the market has an important role to play but it shouldn't be the final arbiter of who gets food and where it comes from.

2. United States:

   We believe China in particular has a responsibility to use its influence with President Vladimir Putin and to defend the international rules and principles that it professes to support, instead, it appears that China is moving in the opposite direction by refusing to condemn this aggression while seeking to portray itself as a neutral arbiter.

3. Trey Gowdy:

   Her arrangement places her as the sole arbiter of what she considers private and what is beyond the view of the public.

4. Mike Richards:

   Do you believe in them when they’re making a ruling in the game? the host of ‘Jeopardy!’ is the arbiter of the game. So do you buy them going, ‘Yes, that’s correct’?

5. Betty McCollum:

   Virginia Thomas’s involvement in the attempt to overthrow the 2020 presidential election, and the subsequent efforts by Justice Thomas to cover up his wife’s actions, have rendered the associate justice ethically compromised and thus unfit to be a neutral arbiter of justice.

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