What is another word for arbiters?

Pronunciation: [ˈɑːbɪtəz] (IPA)

Arbiters are those who are tasked with settling disputes or making decisions in a situation where there are conflicting parties. Synonyms for this word include adjudicators, mediators, and judges. Adjudicators are those who are responsible for making a formal decision in a legal or official context, while mediators try to find a compromise between the parties involved. Judges, on the other hand, are responsible for making legal decisions and rulings. Other synonyms for arbiters include referees, umpires, and moderators. Referees are often used in sports where they make on-the-spot decisions, and moderators are often used in online forums to oversee discussions and keep them on-topic.

What are the hypernyms for Arbiters?

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

Usage examples for Arbiters

It looked as though the new freshman might be a distinct addition to the critical little company of girls who had set themselves as rulers and arbiters of the freshman class.
"Marjorie Dean High School Freshman"
Pauline Lester
Was the verdict of the self-appointed arbiters of the so-called National Geographic Society based upon such examination as Mr. Peary-concerning my case-had declared necessary?
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
The seven planets became the arbiters of human destiny, and their number acquired a hieratic significance.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill

Famous quotes with Arbiters

  • Digital imaging has untied our hands with regards to technical limitations. We no longer have to be arbiters of technology; we get to participate in the interpretation of technology into creative content.
    John Dykstra
  • Sure! Why should any experts be the arbiters... That's like telling someone they can't be a vegetarian.
    Virginia Johnson
  • Former arbiters of taste must have felt (as so many apostles of “traditional values” and other high-minded tags for restriction and conformity do today) that maintaining the social order required a concept of unalloyed heroism. Human beings so designated as role models had to embody all virtues of the paragon—which meant, of course, that they could not be described in their truly human and ineluctably faulted form.
    Stephen Jay Gould
  • Ironclads and Maxim guns must be the ultimate arbiters of metaphysical truth.
    Bertrand Russell
  • We are and irrefutable arbiters of valueIt is we who create value and our desires which confer value. In this realm we are kings
    Bertrand Russell

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