Arbitrate Synonyms and Antonyms

ärbĭ-trāt
To make a decision about (a controversy or dispute, for example) after deliberation, as in a court of law
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. decide
  2. intercede
  3. mediate
  4. referee
  5. determine
  6. negotiate
  7. adjudicate
  8. settle peacefully
  9. adjust differences
  10. conciliate
  11. smooth-out
  12. reconcile
  13. adjudge
  14. employ diplomacy
  15. bring before a referee
  16. hear-both-sides
  17. act as arbiter
  18. parley
  19. placate
  20. bring to terms
  21. decide between opposing parties
  22. intervene
  23. decree
  24. step-in
  25. interpose
  26. judge
  27. come-between
  28. submit to arbitration
  29. straighten out
  30. meet-halfway
  31. come-to-terms
  32. make an adjustment
  33. pour-oil-on-troubled-waters
  34. rule
  35. umpire
  36. settle
  37. intermediate
  38. smooth
  39. liaise
Achieve settlement
(Verb)
Antonyms:
  1. let ride

Arbitrate Sentence Examples

  • This led to the establishment of podests, who represented a compromise between two radically hostile parties in the city, and whose business it was to arbitrate and keep the peace between them.

  • As this dispute was still unsettled when the parliament met at Leicester in February 1426, Bedford and the lords undertook to arbitrate.

  • The local modem would then arbitrate with the distant modem for use of the telephone line.

  • The Persians claimed that the boundary was the old bed of the river, the Afghans that it was the new bed; and in accordance with the treaty of 1857 both parties asked the British government to arbitrate.

  • For example, you ca n't litigate in court and concurrently arbitrate.

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