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How to pronounce arbitration in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms arbitrament, arbitrement
Type of judgement, judgment, judicial decision
Derivation arbitrate, arbitrational


they submitted their disagreement to arbitration.
Type Words
Type of mediation
Derivation arbitrate, arbitrational

Examples of arbitration

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If it couldn't come to terms with its workers, binding arbitration would follow.
From the businessweek.com
Called the Arbitration Fairness Act, it would end mandatory arbitration clauses.
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Bartlett is eligible for salary arbitration after making $4 million last season.
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No Tiger has gone to arbitration during general manager Dave Dombrowski's reign.
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The Boston Red Sox did offer arbitration to Martinez, who will be 32 next month.
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Should parties contemplating entering into those contracts agree to arbitration?
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An arbitration panel ruled in 2007 that O'Quinn owed them more than $41 million.
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The vampire then agreed to arbitration and obtained a lien on the lawyer's soul.
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The Rockies avoided arbitration with all six of their eligible players for 2009.
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  • (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)
  • The act of deciding as an arbiter; giving authoritative judgment; "they submitted their disagreement to arbitration"
  • (arbitrate) intercede: act between parties with a view to reconciling differences; "He interceded in the family dispute"; "He mediated a settlement"
  • (arbitrator) arbiter: 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"
  • Arbitration, a form of alternative dispute resolution (ADR), is a legal technique for the resolution of disputes outside the courts, wherein the parties to a dispute refer it to one or more persons (the "arbitrators", "arbiters" or "arbitral tribunal"), by whose decision (the "award") they agree ...
  • (Arbitrators) An arbitral tribunal (or arbitration tribunal) is a panel of one or more adjudicators which is convened and sits to resolve a dispute by way of arbitration. ...
  • The act or process of arbitrating; A process through which two or more parties use an arbitrator or arbiter in order to resolve a dispute; In general, a form of justice where both parties designate a person whose ruling they will accept formally. ...
  • (arbitrate) To make a judgment (on a dispute) as an arbitrator or arbiter; To submit (a dispute) to such judgment; (rare) To assign an object an arbitrary value, or otherwise arbitrarily determine it
  • (arbitrator) A person to whom the authority to settle or judge a dispute is delegated