'ARBITER, noun [Latin] 1. A person appointed, or chosen by parties in controversy, to decide their differences. This is its sense in the civil law. In modern usage, arbitrator is the technical word. 2. In a general sense, now most common, a person who has the power of judging and determining, without control; one whose power of deciding and governing is not limited. 3. One that commands the destiny, or holds the empire of a nation or state.
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