Antonyms for referee
ˌrɛf əˈriref·er·ee

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1. referee

   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:
   arbiter, arbitrator, judge, justice, umpire

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1. referee

   Antonyms:
   litigant, opponent, adversary

   Synonyms:
   umpire, arbitrator

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1. • Judge
   • Sport

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1. referee, refnoun

   (sports) the chief official (as in boxing or American football) who is expected to ensure fair play

   Synonyms:
   ref, reviewer, reader

2. reviewer, referee, readernoun

   someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication

   Synonyms:
   ref, commentator, subscriber, proofreader, lecturer, reader, reviewer, lector

3. refereeverb

   an attorney appointed by a court to investigate and report on a case

   Synonyms:
   ref, reviewer, reader

4. referee, umpireverb

   be a referee or umpire in a sports competition

   Synonyms:
   peer review, umpire

5. referee, peer reviewverb

   evaluate professionally a colleague's work

   Synonyms:
   peer review, umpire

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1. refereenoun

   Synonyms:
   umpire, judge, arbitrator, arbiter

How to use referee in a sentence?

1. Rafael Benitez:

   We conceded the goals early, but then the team reacted, i am not going to judge the decisions of the referee, but from the sending-off the team did what it had to do, try to play well and score goals.

2. Jimmy Kimmel:

   After you won the game, do you remember what I did? I said ‘good game, thanks’ and I shook your disgusting hand, i didn’t complain that it was rigged, I didn’t ask for a recount on the referee, I didn’t start a conspiracy theory about the basketball having a microchip in it. I brought shame on my family and I embraced it as I always do.

3. Jose Vasquez:

   It's like a game in which the referee is a family member of the other team's captain, why would I waste my time ? During his 14 years as president, Chavez racked up repeated ballot-box victories thanks to his charisma and generous spending of Venezuela's oil revenues - much of it on popular health and nutrition programs, as well as on his own electoral campaigns. The opposition has cried fraud in the past without demonstrating evidence of it, including after a 2004 recall referendum that Chavez won. But October's vote included one incident that some opposition sympathizers see as a tipping point : election officials manually changed results at several voting centers in Bolivar state to tip the result in favor of the Socialist Party candidate, according to election center witnesses. The witnesses produced official poll statements from their voting centers showing that the number of votes for the opposition candidate was higher than those reflected in the National Electoral Council figures for those same centers. The elections council - stacked with Maduro's supporters - has never clarified the issue and did not answer Reuters questions regarding the incident. Maduro's government has never commented. . More commonly, the opposition has complained of obstacles that reduce the likelihood of their supporters voting but are difficult to classify as fraud in a traditional sense - such as last-minute changes to the location of voting centers. In the central state of Lara, Alfredo Alvarez learned just days before the October vote that the elections council had changed Alfredo Alvarez voting center - along with that of an estimated 700,000 Venezuelans in 200 voting centers in predominantly opposition areas. Alfredo Alvarez, Alfredo Alvarez, had to drive around the city of Barquisimeto for several hours because Alfredo Alvarez could not get a clear answer on where Alfredo Alvarez was supposed to vote.

4. Major League Soccer:

   Major League Soccer has been a strong proponent of using technology in soccer where it enhances the game, and we are pleased to be among the first leagues in the world to participate in the Video Assistant Referee project, we believe the time has come for a mechanism that helps referees avoid clearly incorrect decisions that change the game.We look forward to working with The IFAB and FIFA to test video assistance for our referees.

5. President Trump:

   Mike Tomlin know, the National Football League ratings are down massively, massively, a referee gets on television, his wife is sitting at home, she’s so proud of him. They’re ruining the game.

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