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Noun
/ˈärbitər/,
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arbiters, plural;
  1. A person who settles a dispute or has ultimate authority in a matter
    • - the military acted as arbiter of conflicts between political groups
  2. A person whose views or actions have great influence over trends in social behavior
    • - an arbiter of taste
  1. someone with the power to settle matters at will; "she was the final arbiter on all matters of fashion"
  2. someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue; "the critic was considered to be an arbiter of modern literature"; "the arbitrator's authority derived from the consent of the disputants"; "an umpire was appointed to settle the tax case"
  3. In chess, International Arbiter is a title awarded by FIDE to individuals deemed capable of acting as arbiter in important chess matches (the arbiters are responsible for ensuring the rules and laws of chess are adhered to). The title was established in 1951.
  4. Arbiters are electronic devices that allocate access to shared resources.
  5. Arbiter is a fictional ceremonial, religious, and political rank bestowed upon alien Covenant Elites in the Halo science fiction universe. In the 2004 video game Halo 2, the rank is given to a disgraced commander as a way to atone for his failures. ...
  6. StarCraft is a military science fiction media franchise created by Chris Metzen and James Phinney, and owned by Blizzard Entertainment. ...
  7. Blizzard Entertainment's bestselling real-time strategy game series StarCraft revolves around interstellar affairs in a distant sector of the galaxy, with three species and multiple factions all vying for supremacy in the sector. ...
  8. A person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them; an arbitrator; A person or object having the power of judging and determining, or ordaining, without control; one whose power of deciding and governing is not limited; To act as arbiter
  9. (arbiters) auditors, bargainers, bartenders, bolivars, bondholders, bonfires, cardholders, carjackers, carmakers, chroniclers, coauthors, commenters, commoners, complainers, comptroller's, copiers, costumers, dockworkers, farmworkers, followers, foreigners, gobblers, godfather's, gossipers, govs ...
  10. (Arbiters) Quarren tells the Doctor that it is up to the arbiters to decide if the Doctor is a criminal. (Living Witness)
  11. Chess has Arbiters for the enforcement of the rules.
  12. A tournament official who arbitrates disputes and performs other duties such as keeping the score when players are under time pressure.
  13. An arbiter in RDS is responsible for arbitrating amongst the incoming messages, i.e. deciding when certain conditions have been met to enable a task to run. Arbiters must be activated for them to work. There are several different types of arbiters. ...
  14. A person chosen voluntarily by parties to a dispute to decide the difference between them (In English Law, he is called "arbitrator").
  15. a judge with a wider discretion and presumably therefore some legal knowledge (as opposed to the normal system of lay-judges, iudices) which was appointed where a lawsuit required technical knowledge (e.g. division of common property or inheritance as well as boundary disputes).
  16. Arbiter is an electronic data transfer program.
  17. [Latin, One who attends something to view it as a spectator or witness.] Any person who is given an absolute power to judge and rule on a matter in dispute.
  18. person with the authority to make judgements and settle disputes.
  19. A person bound to decide according to the rules of law and equity, as opposed to an arbitrator, who may proceed wholly at his own discretion.
  20. caster; all nearby units belonging to the player with the Arbiter except other Arbiters become cloaked. Can cast stasis field that freezes all units for a set amount of time. No health or energy points can be lost or gained during stasis. ...
  21. arbitrator, one who settles disputes.
  22. judge; one who makes decisions