What is another word for umpirage?

Pronunciation: [ˈʌmpɜːɹɪd͡ʒ] (IPA)

Umpirage refers to the act of officiating a sports game or resolving a dispute. There are several synonyms for umpirage, including refereeing, judging, arbitrating, and mediating. Refereeing is the most common synonym, especially in sports like football or basketball. Judging refers more to determining a winner in a competition, while arbitration refers to an impartial third party settling a legal dispute. Mediating involves helping two or more parties come to a mutually agreeable resolution. All of these synonyms for umpirage involve ensuring fairness and impartiality in decision-making, whether in sports or broader conflicts.

What are the hypernyms for Umpirage?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the hyponyms for Umpirage?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.
  • hyponyms for umpirage (as nouns)

Usage examples for Umpirage

We should be most unwise, indeed, were we to cast away the singular blessings of the position in which nature has placed us, the opportunity she has endowed us with of pursuing, at a distance from foreign contentions, the paths of industry, peace, and happiness, of cultivating general friendship, and of bringing collisions of interest to the umpirage of reason rather than of force.
"State of the Union Addresses of Thomas Jefferson"
Thomas Jefferson
Step into Plunkett House, that hospitable headquarters of the Organization Society, and if you have been nurtured in legends about inextinguishable class and creed antipathies, which are supposed to render Home Rule impossible and the eternal "umpirage" of Great Britain inevitable, you will soon learn to marvel that anyone can be found to propagate them.
"The Framework of Home Rule"
Erskine Childers
Even if this aleatory proceeding were a proper device in the umpirage of private claims, it is strongly inconsistent with the solemnity which belongs to the present question.
"Memoir of John Lothrop Motley, Complete"
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Last Updated: February 6, 2009

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