arbitration

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun (law) the hearing and determination of a dispute by an impartial referee agreed to by both parties (often used to settle disputes between labor and management)
noun the act of deciding as an arbiter; giving authoritative judgment

From Middle English arbitracion, borrowed from Old French arbitration, from Latin arbitratio, from arbitrari (“to arbitrate, judge”); see arbitrate.

Arbitration between employers and employed. — A School History of the United States, John Bach McMaster
"And what about the Arbitration?" — Tristram of Blent: An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House, Anthony Hope
224 Balch, The Alabama Arbitration, cited, ii. — Great Britain and the American Civil War, Ephraim Douglass Adams

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