arbiter

CEFRC2

/ˈɑː.bɪ.tə(ɹ)/

noun

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Sits at C2 on the CEFR scale

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A person or object having the power of judging, determining, or ordaining; one whose power of deciding and governing is not limited.
A person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them; an arbitrator.
The person who oversees a chess match and ensures the rules are followed.

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Television and film, not Vogue and similar magazines, are the arbiters of fashion.
In order to protect individual liberty there must be an arbiter between the governing powers and the governed.
The grapholect of Standard English is not the exclusive system that arbiters of cultural purity wish to 'correct' us into believing

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In order to protect individual liberty there must be an arbiter between the governing powers and the governed.
1931, William Bennett Munro, The government of the United States, national, state, and local, page 495
The grapholect of Standard English is not the exclusive system that arbiters of cultural purity wish to 'correct' us into believing
1993, Gajendra K. Verma, Inequality and teacher education: an international perspective, page 188
The arbiter shall use his best judgement when determining the times to be shown on the replacement chess clock.
2014 April 30, Nicolae Sfetcu, The Game of Chess, Nicolae Sfetcu, page 109
The dreadnought is the ultimate arbiter of space warfare; millions of tons of metal, ceramic, and polymer dedicated to the projection of firepower against an enemy vessel of like ability. No sane commander would face a dreadnought with anything less than another dreadnought.
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Starships: Dreadnought Codex entry
Worse, since there was no institution to arbiter disagreements between Parliament and the government, whenever Parliament voted against the government on the smallest issues, coalitions fragmented, and governments had to be recomposed.
2003, Jean-Benoit Nadeau, Julie Barlow, Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't be Wrong: Why We Love France But Not the French, page 116

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From Middle English arbiter, arbytour, arbitre, from Old French arbitre, from Latin arbiter (“a witness, judge, literally one who goes to see”).