arbitration

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

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

arbitration (countable and uncountable, plural arbitrations)

1. The act or process of arbitrating.
2. A process through which two or more parties use an arbitrator or arbiter in order to resolve a dispute.
3. In general, a form of justice where both parties designate a person whose ruling they will accept formally. More specifically in Market Anarchist (market anarchy) theory, arbitration designates the process by which two agencies pre-negotiate a set of common rules in anticipation of cases where a customer from each agency is involved in a dispute.

• arbitration in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• arbitration in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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arbitration f (plural arbitrations)

1. arbitration

• arbitratif