English words for 'subject to arbitration'
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noun
- The act or process of arbitrating.
- A process through which two or more parties use an arbitrator or arbiter in order to resolve a dispute.
- the act of deciding as an arbiter; giving authoritative judgment
- (law) the hearing and determination of a dispute by an impartial referee agreed to by both parties (often used to settle disputes between labor and management)
- In general, a form of justice where both parties designate a person whose ruling they will accept formally. More specifically in Market Anarchist (market anarchy) theory, arbitration designates the process by which two agencies pre-negotiate a set of common rules in anticipation of cases where a customer from each agency is involved in a dispute.
noun
- An arbitrament or award.
- The report of a judgment made by one of the judges who has given it.
- A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it.
- An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; a maxim, an apothegm.
- an authoritative declaration
- an opinion voiced by a judge on a point of law not directly bearing on the case in question and therefore not binding
noun
- an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter
- a legal document summarizing an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter
- the condition of having submitted to control by someone or something else
- something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition)
- the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another
- the feeling of patient, submissive humbleness
- (law) a contention presented by a lawyer to a judge or jury as part of the case they are arguing
- The act of submitting or yielding; surrender.
- The act of submitting or giving e.g. a completed piece of work.
- The thing which has been submitted.
- A submission hold in wrestling, mixed martial arts, or other combat sports.
- A subset or component of a mission.
noun
- (law) The paper containing the decision of arbitrators; that which is warded.
- (law) A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted.
- (Australia, NZ, industrial relations) A negotiated set of employment conditions and minimum wages for a particular trade or industry; an industrial award.
- A trophy or medal; something that denotes an accomplishment, especially in a competition. A prize or honor based on merit.
- (academia) Funding that has been granted for the conduct of a research project.
- something given for victory or superiority in a contest or competition or for winning a lottery
- a grant made by a law court
- a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction
verb
- (transitive) To give (a person) an award.
- (transitive) To give (an award).
- (intransitive) To determine; to make or grant an award.
- (transitive, law) To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case.
- (transitive, British, education) (in an examination) To give marks for a correct answer.
- give, especially as an honor or reward
- give as judged due or on the basis of merit
name
- Initialism of American Arbitration Association.
- (US) Initialism of American Anthropological Association.
- Initialism of Agricultural Adjustment Association.
- Initialism of Access All Areas, Sony music project.
- (England) Initialism of Amateur Athletic Association of England.
- Initialism of American Airship Association.
- (US, historical, law) Initialism of Agricultural Adjustment Administration.
- Initialism of Allegheny Airlines.
- Initialism of Argentine Anticommunist Alliance.
- Initialism of Archives of American Art.
- (US, automotive) Initialism of American Automobile Association.
- (historical) Initialism of American Academy of Allergy; now the AAAAI.
- Initialism of Army Athletic Association.
- Initialism of Abortion Assistance Association.
- Initialism of ANSI Artists of America.
- Initialism of Allied Artists of America.
- (US, historical) Initialism of Actors and Artistes of America; now the AAAA or 4As.
- Initialism of Association of Accounting Administrators.
- Initialism of American Accounting Association.
- Initialism of Appraisers Association of America.
- Initialism of Agricultural Aviation Association.
- Initialism of Armenian Assembly of America.
- Initialism of American Association for Anatomy.
- Initialism of All American Aviation.
- Initialism of American Academy of Advertising.
- Initialism of American Abstract Artists.
- Initialism of American Accordionists' Association.
- Initialism of American Astronomers Association.
- Initialism of Associated Agents of America.
- Initialism of American Academy of Actuaries.
- Initialism of American Australian Association.
- Initialism of American Ambulance Association.
- Initialism of American Antarctic Association.
- (US, historical, law) Initialism of Agricultural Adjustment Act.
- (Australia, automotive) Initialism of Australian Automobile Association.
- Initialism of Association of Average Adjusters.
- Initialism of Antique Airplane Association.
- Initialism of Area-Agency on Aging.
- (UK, art, historical) Initialism of Allied Artists Association.
noun
- Initialism of airport airspace analysis.
- Initialism of Access Approval Authority.
- Initialism of astronaut-actuated abort.
- (organic chemistry) Initialism of aromatic amino acid.
- Initialism of authorization accounting activity; authorized accounting activity.
- Initialism of air avenue of approach.
- Initialism of Acquisition Approval Authority.
- Initialism of allocations, assessments, and analysis.
- Initialism of angle angle angle, a geometric proof.
- Initialism of arrival and assembly area.
- Initialism of aircraft alert area.
- Initialism of authentication, authorization and accounting.
- Initialism of aerospace engineering, applied mechanics, and aviation.
- Initialism of automated airlift analysis.
- (psychology) Initialism of animal-assisted activity.
- Initialism of AEGIS acquisition agent.
- (military) Initialism of anti-aircraft artillery.
- Initialism of adaptive array antenna.
- Initialism of alternate assembly area.
- (medicine) Initialism of abdominal aortic aneurysm.
- Initialism of attitude, awareness and accountability, a ski safety program.
- Initialism of adult album alternative.
- Initialism of accumulated adjustments account, in US Federal Income Tax.
- Initialism of airborne assault area.
- Initialism of advanced acoustic array.
- Initialism of airborne array aperture.
- Initialism of administration, authorization, and authentication, in software security.
- an aneurysm of the abdominal aorta associated with old age and hypertension
phrase
symbol
- A very narrow shoe size.
- (sports, Canada, US) The highest level of minor league baseball, often used by extension in other sports to indicate the highest level of minor league play in that sport as well.
- (video games) high-quality video game expected to sell well, typically with a large development budget.
- (finance) The highest credit rating given by debt analysis agencies such as Standard & Poor's, Moody's, and A.M. Best.
noun
- the belief that all international disputes can be settled by arbitration
- the doctrine that all violence is unjustifiable
- A moderate form of political pacifism which allows the use of violence against those seeking to commit greater violence.
- General ethical opposition to war or violence; pacifism broadly stated.
noun
- the belief that all international disputes can be settled by arbitration
- the doctrine that all violence is unjustifiable
- (video games, roguelikes) The additional challenge of winning a game without harming any enemy characters.
- The combination of the above two philosophical viewpoints.
- The ethical avoidance of inflicting harm on others in one's daily life.
- The conviction that it is morally wrong to settle disputes (especially between countries) by war or other violent means.
noun
- (law) Initialism of alternative dispute resolution.
- (aviation) Initialism of air data reference.
- (broadcasting, uncountable) Initialism of automatic dialogue replacement.
- (software engineering) Initialism of architectural decision record.
- (finance) Initialism of American depositary receipt.
- (pharmacology) Initialism of adverse drug reaction.
- (veterinary medicine, slang, uncountable) Initialism of ain't doin' right (the situation where an animal appears unwell but has not yet been diagnosed with any specific illness).
- (film, uncountable) Initialism of additional/audio dialogue replacement.
name
noun
- (law) A person who arbitrates between contending parties.
- someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue
- (American football) The official who stands behind the line on the defensive side or next to the referee on the offensive side.
- (cricket) One of the two white-coated officials who preside over a cricket match.
- An official who presides over a sports match.
- (baseball) One of the officials who preside over a baseball game.
- (curling) The official who presides over a curling game.
- (Australian rules football) A match official on the ground deciding and enforcing the rules during play. As of 2007 the Australian Football League uses three; in the past there were two or just one. The other officials, the goal umpires and boundary umpires, are usually referred to by those phrases.
- (tennis, badminton) The official who presides over a tennis match sat on a high chair.
- an official at a baseball game
verb
verb
noun
- (finance) A market activity in which a security, commodity, currency or other tradable item is bought in one market and sold simultaneously in another, in order to profit from price differences between the markets.
- a kind of hedged investment meant to capture slight differences in price; when there is a difference in the price of something on two different markets the arbitrageur simultaneously buys at the lower price and sells at the higher price
noun
- (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it
- the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations
- the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision
- an opinion formed by judging something
- the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event
- the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions
- the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions
- (chiefly Commonwealth) Alternative spelling of judgment.
noun
- (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it
- the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations
- the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision
- an opinion formed by judging something
- the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event
- the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions
- the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions
- (law) The act of determining, as in courts of law, what is conformable to law and justice; also, the determination, decision, or sentence of a court, or of a judge.
- The power or faculty of performing such operations; especially, when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely.
- The act of judging.
- (theology) The final award; the last sentence.
- The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision.
name
noun
noun
- a disputed legal contention that is generally left for a judge to decide
- (law) An issue that, although it may turn on a factual point, is reserved for the court and excluded from the jury; an issue that is exclusively within the province of the judge and not the jury.
- (law) An issue to be decided by the judge, concerning the application or interpretation of the law.
- (law) An issue about what the law is on a particular point; an issue in which the parties argue about, and the court must decide, what the true rule of law is.
- (law) A question that the law itself has authoritatively answered, so that the court may not answer it as a matter of discretion.
noun
- (law) A resolution of a dispute.
- The state of being settled.
- (law) A disposition of property, or the act of granting it.
- (law) A mutual agreement to end a dispute without resorting to legal proceedings, also known as an out-of-court settlement or settling out of court.
- The act of settling.
- (law) A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of legal residence.
- (archaeology) A site where people used to live together in ancient times; an ancient simple kind of village.
- (architecture) The gradual sinking of a building. Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.
- A community of people living together, such as a hamlet, village, town, or city; a populated place.
- (finance) The delivery of goods by the seller and payment for them by the buyer, under a previously agreed trade or transaction or contract entered into.
- A colony that is newly established; a place or region newly settled.
- (India, historical) An estate or district in Anglo-Indian Bengal where, instead of taking a quota of the year's produce, the government took a fixed sum several times a year from the local cultivators.
- termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities
- a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it
- the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies
- a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government
- a community of people smaller than a town
- an area where a group of families live together
- something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making
name
noun
- (computing, uncountable) Initialism of compare and swap.
- (aviation) Initialism of calibrated airspeed.
- (military, aviation) Acronym of close air support.
- (organisation) Initialism of complex adaptive system.
- (electronics, communication) Initialism of channel-associated signalling.
- (mathematics, computing) Initialism of computer algebra system.
- (aviation) Acronym of collision avoidance system.
- Initialism of cowboy action shooting.
- (military) Initialism of combat armor suit, used for a powered, armed and armored exoskeleton, in fiction and military research.
noun
- An arbitrator or mediator.
- (Ireland) At the University of Dublin, either the first (senior) or second (junior) in rank in an examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
- (nuclear physics) A substance (often water or graphite) used to decrease the speed of fast neutrons in a nuclear reactor and hence increase likelihood of fission.
- (UK) Someone who supervises and monitors the setting and marking of examinations by different people to ensure consistency of standards.
- (UK) An examiner at Oxford and Cambridge universities.
- (historical) A kind of lamp in which the flow of the oil to the wick is regulated.
- Someone who moderates.
- The chair or president of a meeting, etc.
- The person who presides over a synod of a Presbyterian church.
- (Internet) A person who enforces the rules of a discussion forum by deleting posts, banning users, etc.
- A mechanical arrangement for regulating motion in a machine, or producing equality of effect.
- A device used to deaden some of the noise from a firearm, although not to the same extent as a suppressor or silencer.
- in the Presbyterian church, the officer who presides over a synod or general assembly
- someone who presides over a forum or debate
- someone who mediates disputes and attempts to avoid violence
- any substance used to slow down neutrons in nuclear reactors
adj
- subject to legal action
- (often followed by ‘to’) likely to be affected with
- at risk of or subject to experiencing something usually unpleasant
- held legally responsible
- (predicative, with to-infinitive) Likely.
- Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable.
- Subject; susceptible; prone.
- Exposed to a certain contingency or causality, more or less probable.
noun
- The settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions.
- (computer security) A breach of a computer or network's rules such that an unauthorized disclosure or loss of sensitive information may have occurred, or the unauthorized disclosure or loss itself.
- A committal to something derogatory or objectionable; a prejudicial concession; a surrender.
- an accommodation in which both sides make concessions
- a middle way between two extremes
verb
- (transitive) To breach (a security system).
- (transitive) To cause impairment of.
- (intransitive) To find a way between extremes.
- (ambitransitive) To bind by mutual agreement.
- To adjust and settle by mutual concessions; to compound.
- To pledge by some act or declaration; to endanger the life, reputation, etc., of, by some act which can not be recalled; to expose to suspicion.
- expose or make liable to danger, suspicion, or disrepute
- settle by concession
- make a compromise; arrive at a compromise
noun
- someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue
- A person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them; an arbitrator.
- someone with the power to settle matters at will
- (with of) A person or object having the power of judging, determining, or ordaining; one whose power of deciding and governing is not limited.
- (electronics) A component in circuitry that allocates scarce resources.
verb
noun
- any of various forms of mediation whereby disputes may be settled short of arbitration
- the act of placating and overcoming distrust and animosity
- the state of manifesting goodwill and cooperation after being reconciled
- (law) A form of alternative dispute resolution, similar to but less formal than mediation, in which the parties bring their dispute to a neutral third party, who helps lower tensions, improve communications and explore possible solutions.
- The process of bringing peace and harmony; the ending of strife.
noun
- (UK, finance) Arbitrage conducted between certain local markets without the necessity of the exchange involved in foreign arbitrage.
- The connection of an electrical component in parallel with another, the current being divided between them.
- The manipulation of railway rolling stock into different combinations or onto different tracks.
verb
noun
- A decision that is not unanimous made by a panel of decision-makers, such as an appellate court.
- (competitive fighting) an outcome in several full-contact combat sports where two of the three judges score for the same fighter as the winner, while the third judge scores for the other fighter.
- a boxing decision in which the judges are not unanimous
noun
- A determination of law made by a court.
- (sports) A foul consisting of impermissibly restricting the movement of an opposing player with the hands or stick.
- Something that one owns, especially stocks and bonds.
- (in texts about Russia, nonstandard) A holding company, or other kind of company (by back-translation from Russian холдинг (xolding)).
- A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another.
- the act of retaining something
- something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone
verb
noun
- An individual or entity serving as an arbitrator or adjudicator.
- (uncountable) The position of a set of gears in which power cannot be transmitted to the drive mechanism.
- A neutral hue.
- A person who takes no side in a dispute.
- A nonaligned state, or a member of such a state.
- An electrical terminal or conductor which has zero or close to zero voltage with respect to the ground.
- one who does not side with any party in a war or dispute
adj
- Neither beneficial nor harmful.
- Neither positive nor negative.
- (liquor, chemistry) Of an alcoholic drink, having been fermented and distilled but with no additives.
- (chemistry) Having a pH of or near 7, neither acidic nor alkaline.
- (physics) Neither positive nor negative; possessing no charge or equivalent positive and negative charge such that there is no imbalance.
- (biology) Having no sex; neuter.
- Having no obvious colour; gray.
- (politics) Not taking sides in a conflict such as war; nonaligned.
- Favoring neither the supporting nor opposing viewpoint of a topic of debate; unbiased.
- (roleplaying games) Having an alignment that is situated between two notable possibilities, such as between good and evil, or between chaotic and lawful.
- (psychology) Not biased; viewing situations objectively in a way that is neither positive nor negative.
- possessing no distinctive quality or characteristics
- having only a limited ability to react chemically; chemically inactive
- having no net electric charge
- having no personal preference
- lacking distinguishing quality or characteristics
- not supporting or favoring either side in a war, dispute, or contest
- having no hue
verb
- To settle (an argument, dispute etc.); to come to a settlement.
- (transitive) To make up the whole; to constitute.
- To arrange the elements of a photograph or other picture.
- To arrange in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition.
- (transitive or intransitive) To construct by mental labor; to think up; particularly, to produce or create a literary or musical work.
- (transitive) To make something by merging parts.
- (sometimes reflexive) To calm; to free from agitation.
- (transitive, nonstandard) To comprise.
- make up plans or basic details for
- put together out of existing material
- produce a literary work
- write music
- calm (someone, especially oneself); make quiet
- form the substance of
noun
- The act or process of arbitrating.
- A process through which two or more parties use an arbitrator or arbiter in order to resolve a dispute.
- the act of deciding as an arbiter; giving authoritative judgment
- (law) the hearing and determination of a dispute by an impartial referee agreed to by both parties (often used to settle disputes between labor and management)
- In general, a form of justice where both parties designate a person whose ruling they will accept formally. More specifically in Market Anarchist (market anarchy) theory, arbitration designates the process by which two agencies pre-negotiate a set of common rules in anticipation of cases where a customer from each agency is involved in a dispute.
noun
- An arbitrament or award.
- The report of a judgment made by one of the judges who has given it.
- A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it.
- An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; a maxim, an apothegm.
- an authoritative declaration
- an opinion voiced by a judge on a point of law not directly bearing on the case in question and therefore not binding
noun
- an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter
- a legal document summarizing an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter
- the condition of having submitted to control by someone or something else
- something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition)
- the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another
- the feeling of patient, submissive humbleness
- (law) a contention presented by a lawyer to a judge or jury as part of the case they are arguing
- The act of submitting or yielding; surrender.
- The act of submitting or giving e.g. a completed piece of work.
- The thing which has been submitted.
- A submission hold in wrestling, mixed martial arts, or other combat sports.
- A subset or component of a mission.
noun
- (law) The paper containing the decision of arbitrators; that which is warded.
- (law) A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted.
- (Australia, NZ, industrial relations) A negotiated set of employment conditions and minimum wages for a particular trade or industry; an industrial award.
- A trophy or medal; something that denotes an accomplishment, especially in a competition. A prize or honor based on merit.
- (academia) Funding that has been granted for the conduct of a research project.
- something given for victory or superiority in a contest or competition or for winning a lottery
- a grant made by a law court
- a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction
verb
- (transitive) To give (a person) an award.
- (transitive) To give (an award).
- (intransitive) To determine; to make or grant an award.
- (transitive, law) To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case.
- (transitive, British, education) (in an examination) To give marks for a correct answer.
- give, especially as an honor or reward
- give as judged due or on the basis of merit
noun
- the belief that all international disputes can be settled by arbitration
- the doctrine that all violence is unjustifiable
- A moderate form of political pacifism which allows the use of violence against those seeking to commit greater violence.
- General ethical opposition to war or violence; pacifism broadly stated.
noun
- the belief that all international disputes can be settled by arbitration
- the doctrine that all violence is unjustifiable
- (video games, roguelikes) The additional challenge of winning a game without harming any enemy characters.
- The combination of the above two philosophical viewpoints.
- The ethical avoidance of inflicting harm on others in one's daily life.
- The conviction that it is morally wrong to settle disputes (especially between countries) by war or other violent means.
noun
- (law) Initialism of alternative dispute resolution.
- (aviation) Initialism of air data reference.
- (broadcasting, uncountable) Initialism of automatic dialogue replacement.
- (software engineering) Initialism of architectural decision record.
- (finance) Initialism of American depositary receipt.
- (pharmacology) Initialism of adverse drug reaction.
- (veterinary medicine, slang, uncountable) Initialism of ain't doin' right (the situation where an animal appears unwell but has not yet been diagnosed with any specific illness).
- (film, uncountable) Initialism of additional/audio dialogue replacement.
name
noun
- (law) A person who arbitrates between contending parties.
- someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue
- (American football) The official who stands behind the line on the defensive side or next to the referee on the offensive side.
- (cricket) One of the two white-coated officials who preside over a cricket match.
- An official who presides over a sports match.
- (baseball) One of the officials who preside over a baseball game.
- (curling) The official who presides over a curling game.
- (Australian rules football) A match official on the ground deciding and enforcing the rules during play. As of 2007 the Australian Football League uses three; in the past there were two or just one. The other officials, the goal umpires and boundary umpires, are usually referred to by those phrases.
- (tennis, badminton) The official who presides over a tennis match sat on a high chair.
- an official at a baseball game
verb
noun
- (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it
- the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations
- the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision
- an opinion formed by judging something
- the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event
- the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions
- the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions
- (chiefly Commonwealth) Alternative spelling of judgment.
noun
- (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it
- the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations
- the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision
- an opinion formed by judging something
- the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event
- the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions
- the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions
- (law) The act of determining, as in courts of law, what is conformable to law and justice; also, the determination, decision, or sentence of a court, or of a judge.
- The power or faculty of performing such operations; especially, when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely.
- The act of judging.
- (theology) The final award; the last sentence.
- The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision.
noun
- a disputed legal contention that is generally left for a judge to decide
- (law) An issue that, although it may turn on a factual point, is reserved for the court and excluded from the jury; an issue that is exclusively within the province of the judge and not the jury.
- (law) An issue to be decided by the judge, concerning the application or interpretation of the law.
- (law) An issue about what the law is on a particular point; an issue in which the parties argue about, and the court must decide, what the true rule of law is.
- (law) A question that the law itself has authoritatively answered, so that the court may not answer it as a matter of discretion.
noun
- (law) A resolution of a dispute.
- The state of being settled.
- (law) A disposition of property, or the act of granting it.
- (law) A mutual agreement to end a dispute without resorting to legal proceedings, also known as an out-of-court settlement or settling out of court.
- The act of settling.
- (law) A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of legal residence.
- (archaeology) A site where people used to live together in ancient times; an ancient simple kind of village.
- (architecture) The gradual sinking of a building. Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.
- A community of people living together, such as a hamlet, village, town, or city; a populated place.
- (finance) The delivery of goods by the seller and payment for them by the buyer, under a previously agreed trade or transaction or contract entered into.
- A colony that is newly established; a place or region newly settled.
- (India, historical) An estate or district in Anglo-Indian Bengal where, instead of taking a quota of the year's produce, the government took a fixed sum several times a year from the local cultivators.
- termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities
- a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it
- the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies
- a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government
- a community of people smaller than a town
- an area where a group of families live together
- something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making
noun
- An arbitrator or mediator.
- (Ireland) At the University of Dublin, either the first (senior) or second (junior) in rank in an examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
- (nuclear physics) A substance (often water or graphite) used to decrease the speed of fast neutrons in a nuclear reactor and hence increase likelihood of fission.
- (UK) Someone who supervises and monitors the setting and marking of examinations by different people to ensure consistency of standards.
- (UK) An examiner at Oxford and Cambridge universities.
- (historical) A kind of lamp in which the flow of the oil to the wick is regulated.
- Someone who moderates.
- The chair or president of a meeting, etc.
- The person who presides over a synod of a Presbyterian church.
- (Internet) A person who enforces the rules of a discussion forum by deleting posts, banning users, etc.
- A mechanical arrangement for regulating motion in a machine, or producing equality of effect.
- A device used to deaden some of the noise from a firearm, although not to the same extent as a suppressor or silencer.
- in the Presbyterian church, the officer who presides over a synod or general assembly
- someone who presides over a forum or debate
- someone who mediates disputes and attempts to avoid violence
- any substance used to slow down neutrons in nuclear reactors
noun
- The settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions.
- (computer security) A breach of a computer or network's rules such that an unauthorized disclosure or loss of sensitive information may have occurred, or the unauthorized disclosure or loss itself.
- A committal to something derogatory or objectionable; a prejudicial concession; a surrender.
- an accommodation in which both sides make concessions
- a middle way between two extremes
verb
- (transitive) To breach (a security system).
- (transitive) To cause impairment of.
- (intransitive) To find a way between extremes.
- (ambitransitive) To bind by mutual agreement.
- To adjust and settle by mutual concessions; to compound.
- To pledge by some act or declaration; to endanger the life, reputation, etc., of, by some act which can not be recalled; to expose to suspicion.
- expose or make liable to danger, suspicion, or disrepute
- settle by concession
- make a compromise; arrive at a compromise
noun
- someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue
- A person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them; an arbitrator.
- someone with the power to settle matters at will
- (with of) A person or object having the power of judging, determining, or ordaining; one whose power of deciding and governing is not limited.
- (electronics) A component in circuitry that allocates scarce resources.
verb
noun
- any of various forms of mediation whereby disputes may be settled short of arbitration
- the act of placating and overcoming distrust and animosity
- the state of manifesting goodwill and cooperation after being reconciled
- (law) A form of alternative dispute resolution, similar to but less formal than mediation, in which the parties bring their dispute to a neutral third party, who helps lower tensions, improve communications and explore possible solutions.
- The process of bringing peace and harmony; the ending of strife.
noun
- (UK, finance) Arbitrage conducted between certain local markets without the necessity of the exchange involved in foreign arbitrage.
- The connection of an electrical component in parallel with another, the current being divided between them.
- The manipulation of railway rolling stock into different combinations or onto different tracks.
verb
noun
- A decision that is not unanimous made by a panel of decision-makers, such as an appellate court.
- (competitive fighting) an outcome in several full-contact combat sports where two of the three judges score for the same fighter as the winner, while the third judge scores for the other fighter.
- a boxing decision in which the judges are not unanimous
noun
- A determination of law made by a court.
- (sports) A foul consisting of impermissibly restricting the movement of an opposing player with the hands or stick.
- Something that one owns, especially stocks and bonds.
- (in texts about Russia, nonstandard) A holding company, or other kind of company (by back-translation from Russian холдинг (xolding)).
- A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another.
- the act of retaining something
- something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone
verb
noun
- An individual or entity serving as an arbitrator or adjudicator.
- (uncountable) The position of a set of gears in which power cannot be transmitted to the drive mechanism.
- A neutral hue.
- A person who takes no side in a dispute.
- A nonaligned state, or a member of such a state.
- An electrical terminal or conductor which has zero or close to zero voltage with respect to the ground.
- one who does not side with any party in a war or dispute
adj
- Neither beneficial nor harmful.
- Neither positive nor negative.
- (liquor, chemistry) Of an alcoholic drink, having been fermented and distilled but with no additives.
- (chemistry) Having a pH of or near 7, neither acidic nor alkaline.
- (physics) Neither positive nor negative; possessing no charge or equivalent positive and negative charge such that there is no imbalance.
- (biology) Having no sex; neuter.
- Having no obvious colour; gray.
- (politics) Not taking sides in a conflict such as war; nonaligned.
- Favoring neither the supporting nor opposing viewpoint of a topic of debate; unbiased.
- (roleplaying games) Having an alignment that is situated between two notable possibilities, such as between good and evil, or between chaotic and lawful.
- (psychology) Not biased; viewing situations objectively in a way that is neither positive nor negative.
- possessing no distinctive quality or characteristics
- having only a limited ability to react chemically; chemically inactive
- having no net electric charge
- having no personal preference
- lacking distinguishing quality or characteristics
- not supporting or favoring either side in a war, dispute, or contest
- having no hue
verb
noun
- (finance) A market activity in which a security, commodity, currency or other tradable item is bought in one market and sold simultaneously in another, in order to profit from price differences between the markets.
- a kind of hedged investment meant to capture slight differences in price; when there is a difference in the price of something on two different markets the arbitrageur simultaneously buys at the lower price and sells at the higher price
noun
- someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue
- A person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them; an arbitrator.
- someone with the power to settle matters at will
- (with of) A person or object having the power of judging, determining, or ordaining; one whose power of deciding and governing is not limited.
- (electronics) A component in circuitry that allocates scarce resources.
verb
verb
- To settle (an argument, dispute etc.); to come to a settlement.
- (transitive) To make up the whole; to constitute.
- To arrange the elements of a photograph or other picture.
- To arrange in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition.
- (transitive or intransitive) To construct by mental labor; to think up; particularly, to produce or create a literary or musical work.
- (transitive) To make something by merging parts.
- (sometimes reflexive) To calm; to free from agitation.
- (transitive, nonstandard) To comprise.
- make up plans or basic details for
- put together out of existing material
- produce a literary work
- write music
- calm (someone, especially oneself); make quiet
- form the substance of
adj
- subject to legal action
- (often followed by ‘to’) likely to be affected with
- at risk of or subject to experiencing something usually unpleasant
- held legally responsible
- (predicative, with to-infinitive) Likely.
- Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable.
- Subject; susceptible; prone.
- Exposed to a certain contingency or causality, more or less probable.