arbitrator
or bi tray ter
- n someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue
the arbitrator's authority derived from the consent of the disputants
- The arbitrator's ruling in the Guillen case suddenly carries enormous consequences for the players named in the report.
- Unlike a judge, who might have to spend weeks acquainting himself with the technical points of an industry, the arbitrator, usually a topnotch man in the field, needs no such .
- The arbitrator found, for example, that the American League president and two owners Jerry Reinsdorf, who still controls the Chicago White Sox, and one Bud Selig, then owner of .