Definition of Arbiter

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Arbiter

A person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them.

Any person who has the power of judging and determining, or ordaining, without control; one whose power of deciding and governing is not limited.

To act as arbiter between.

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Arbiter Quotations

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony.
Emma Goldman

The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.
James Buchanan

I also believe that the Supreme Court should be the final arbiter of all federal questions.
Judy Biggert

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.
Max Eastman

The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
Lamar S. Smith

Arbiter Translations

arbiter in Dutch is arbiter, scheidsrechter
arbiter in French is artitre, arbitre
arbiter in German is Schiedsmann, Schiedsrichter
arbiter in Italian is arbitro

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