arbitration

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɑː.bɪˈtɹeɪ.ʃən/, [ˌɑː.bəˈt̠͡ɹ̠eɪ.ʃn̩]
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɑɹ.bɪˈtɹeɪ.ʃən/, [ˌɑɹ.bəˈt̠͡ɹ̠eɪ.ʃn̩]

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• antiarbitration
• arbitrational
• arbitrationism
• arbitrationist
• arbitration of exchange
• pendulum arbitration
• rearbitration

Related terms

• arbiter
• arbitrable
• arbitrage
• arbitrary
• arbitrate
• arbitrator

Translations

the act or process of arbitrating

Armenian: արբիտրաժ (hy) (arbitraž) Bulgarian: арбитра́ж (bg) m (arbitráž) Chinese: Mandarin: 仲裁 (zh) (zhòngcái) Dutch: arbitratie f Finnish: välimiesmenettely (fi), arbitraatio French: arbitrage (fr) m Georgian: არბიტრაჟი (ka) (arbiṭraži) German: Schiedsspruch (de) m Indonesian: arbitrase (id) Italian: arbitraggio (it) m Japanese: 仲裁 (ja) (ちゅうさい, chūsai), 仲介 (ja) (ちゅうかい, chūkai) Korean: 중재(仲裁) (ko) (jungjae) Latin: arbitrium n Malayalam: മദ്ധ്യസ്ഥത (maddhyasthata), ആർബിട്രേഷൻ (āṟbiṭrēṣaṉ) Mongolian: арбитраж (mn) (arbitraž) Polish: arbitraż (pl) m Portuguese: arbitragem (pt) f, arbitramento (pt) m, arbitração (pt) f Romanian: arbitrare, arbitraj (ro) n Russian: арбитра́ж (ru) m (arbitráž) Spanish: arbitraje (es) Ukrainian: арбітра́ж (uk) m (arbitráž)

process through which two or more parties use an arbitrator or arbiter in order to resolve a dispute

Armenian: արբիտրաժ (hy) (arbitraž) Azerbaijani: arbitraj Bulgarian: арбитра́ж (bg) m (arbitráž) Chinese: Mandarin: 仲裁 (zh) (zhòngcái) Dutch: arbitratie f Finnish: välimiesmenettely (fi), arbitraatio French: arbitrage (fr) m Indonesian: arbitrase (id) Italian: arbitrato (it) m, mediazione (it) f Japanese: 仲裁 (ja) (ちゅうさい, chūsai) Korean: 중재(仲裁) (ko) (jungjae) Latin: arbitrium f Malayalam: മദ്ധ്യസ്ഥം (maddhyasthaṁ) Norwegian: voldgift m Polish: arbitraż (pl) m Portuguese: arbitragem (pt) f, arbitramento (pt) m, arbitração (pt) f Russian: арбитра́ж (ru) m (arbitráž) Swedish: skiljedom (sv) c Ukrainian: арбітра́ж (uk) m (arbitráž)

form of justice

Armenian: արբիտրաժ (hy) (arbitraž) Chinese: Mandarin: 仲裁 (zh) (zhòngcái) Dutch: arbitrage (nl) f Finnish: välimiesmenettely (fi), arbitraatio French: arbitrage (fr) m Indonesian: arbitrase (id) Italian: mediazione (it) f Japanese: 仲介 (ja) (ちゅうかい, chūkai) Portuguese: arbitragem (pt) f, arbitramento (pt) m, arbitração (pt) f Russian: арбитра́ж (ru) m (arbitráž)

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Scottish Gaelic: (please verify) eadar-bhreith f Telugu: (please verify) మధ్యవర్తిత్వం (madhyavartitvaṁ)

Further reading

• “arbitration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “arbitration”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

French

Pronunciation

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Noun

arbitration f (plural arbitrations)

1. arbitration

Related terms

• arbitratif

Further reading

• “arbitration”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.