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arbiter (s) (noun), arbiters (pl)
1. A person who is considered to be an authority on what is good, right, or proper: Hugo was an arbiter who wrote editorials for his newspaper.
2. Someone who has the authority to settle an argument between people: The chairperson will be the final arbiter in any disputes among the members of the committee.
3. Etymology: from Old French arbitre or directly from Latin arbiter, "one who goes somewhere (as witness or judge)" and in classical Latin, "he who hears and decides a case, a judge, an umpire, a mediator"; from ad-, "to" + baetere, "to come, to go."
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