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Synonyms for referee
ˌrɛf əˈriref·er·ee
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
referee
A judge, in the legal sense, is a judicial officer appointed or elected to preside in courts of law, and to decide legal questions duly brought before him; the name is sometimes given to other legally constituted officers; as, the judges of election; in other relations, any person duly appointed to pass upon the merits of contestants or of competing articles may be called a judge; as, the judges at an agricultural fair, or at a race-track; in the widest sense, any person who has good capacity for judging is called a judge; as, a person is said to be a judge of pictures, or a good judge of a horse, etc. In most games the judge is called an umpire; as, the umpire of a game of ball or cricket. A referee is appointed by a court to decide disputed matters between litigants; an arbitrator is chosen by the contending parties to decide matters in dispute without action by a court. In certain cases an umpire is appointed by a court to decide where arbitrators disagree. Arbiter, with its suggestion of final and absolute decision, has come to be used only in a high or sacred sense; as, war must now be the arbiter; the Supreme Arbiter of our destinies. The judges of certain courts, as the United States Supreme Court, are technically known as justices.
Synonyms:
arbiter, arbitrator, judge, justice, umpire
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
referee
Synonyms:
umpire, arbitrator
Princeton's WordNet
referee, refnoun
(sports) the chief official (as in boxing or American football) who is expected to ensure fair play
reviewer, referee, readernoun
someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication
Synonyms:
ref, commentator, subscriber, proofreader, lecturer, reader, reviewer, lectorrefereeverb
an attorney appointed by a court to investigate and report on a case
referee, umpireverb
be a referee or umpire in a sports competition
Synonyms:
peer review, umpirereferee, peer reviewverb
evaluate professionally a colleague's work
Synonyms:
peer review, umpire
Dictionary of English Synonymes
refereenoun
Synonyms:
arbitrator, arbiter, judge, umpire
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
refereenoun
Synonyms:
umpire, judge, arbitrator, arbiter
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "referee":
arbitrator, arbiter, adjudicator, respondent, interviewee, responding, replying, arbitrators, umpire
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#1632 | reader | |
#1818 | justice | |
#2567 | judge | |
#3428 | ref | |
#5112 | reviewer | |
#5623 | subscriber | |
#6676 | respondent | |
#8325 | responding | |
#10903 | lecturer | |
#13976 | referee | |
#20452 | replying | |
#20740 | arbitrator | |
#24568 | commentator | |
#30015 | umpire | |
#37132 | arbitrators | |
#41017 | arbiter | |
#50839 | interviewee | |
#51738 | adjudicator | |
#60874 | lector | |
#77461 | proofreader |
How to use referee in a sentence?
We confirmed with the referee and the crew that on that play — they got together and talked — they determined that they had a whistle, but that the whistle for them on the field was blown after the receiver caught the ball.
Did you put the very best person in that cage with the fighters? You like your local guy who does all your local events, but when your referee stands by unaware that a man’s arm has been dislocated, we have serious issues.
The idea came from witnessing some bad habits that school kids have picked up from the increased coverage of global football, we've seen kids brandish imaginary red cards towards the referee in an attempt to get an opposition player sent off. And also blatantly diving to win penalties.
A referee gets on television, his wife is sitting at home, she’s so proud of him. They’re ruining the game.
It's like a game in which the referee is a family member of the other team's captain, why would I waste my time ? During his 14 years as president, Chavez racked up repeated ballot-box victories thanks to his charisma and generous spending of Venezuela's oil revenues - much of it on popular health and nutrition programs, as well as on his own electoral campaigns. The opposition has cried fraud in the past without demonstrating evidence of it, including after a 2004 recall referendum that Chavez won. But October's vote included one incident that some opposition sympathizers see as a tipping point : election officials manually changed results at several voting centers in Bolivar state to tip the result in favor of the Socialist Party candidate, according to election center witnesses. The witnesses produced official poll statements from their voting centers showing that the number of votes for the opposition candidate was higher than those reflected in the National Electoral Council figures for those same centers. The elections council - stacked with Maduro's supporters - has never clarified the issue and did not answer Reuters questions regarding the incident. Maduro's government has never commented. . More commonly, the opposition has complained of obstacles that reduce the likelihood of their supporters voting but are difficult to classify as fraud in a traditional sense - such as last-minute changes to the location of voting centers. In the central state of Lara, Alfredo Alvarez learned just days before the October vote that the elections council had changed Alfredo Alvarez voting center - along with that of an estimated 700,000 Venezuelans in 200 voting centers in predominantly opposition areas. Alfredo Alvarez, Alfredo Alvarez, had to drive around the city of Barquisimeto for several hours because Alfredo Alvarez could not get a clear answer on where Alfredo Alvarez was supposed to vote.
Translations for referee
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- حكمArabic
- съдияBulgarian
- rozhodčíCzech
- dømme, dommerDanish
- Schiedsrichterin, schiedsrichtern, Rezensent, Schiedsrichter, LektorGerman
- εισηγητής, διαιτητήςGreek
- arbitrar, árbitro, réferi, revisorSpanish
- epaileBasque
- erotuomari, sovittelija, välimies, tuomaroida, tuomita, suositella, suosittelija, arvioija, arvioida, sovitellaFinnish
- arbitreFrench
- rèitearScottish Gaelic
- bíróHungarian
- arbitroItalian
- 審判, レフェリーJapanese
- 신원보증인, 審判, 중재인, 심사원, 심판Korean
- ArbitterLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- суди, судија, препорачател, вештакMacedonian
- pengadil, wasitMalay
- scheidsrechter, arbiterDutch
- sędziaPolish
- arbitrar, juiz, árbitroPortuguese
- рецензент, судья, арбитр, поручитель, рефери, ампайр, поручительницаRussian
- вјештак, sutkinja, sudac, суткиња, vještak, стручњак, судац, судија, вештак, veštak, sudija, stručnjakSerbo-Croatian
- referens, domare, döma, skiljedomareSwedish
- రిఫరీTelugu
- hakem, bilirkişiTurkish
- рефері, арбітр, суддяUkrainian
- trọng tàiVietnamese
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