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ADJUDICATOR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does adjudicator mean?
• ADJUDICATOR (noun)
The noun ADJUDICATOR has 1 sense:
1. a person who studies and settles conflicts and disputes
Familiarity information: ADJUDICATOR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who studies and settles conflicts and disputes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("adjudicator" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "adjudicator"):
judge; jurist; justice (a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice)
official (someone who administers the rules of a game or sport)
Derivation:
adjudicate (put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of)
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