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noun

arbitration

(law) the hearing and determination of a dispute by an impartial referee agreed to by both parties (often used to settle disputes between labor and management)

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Six example sentences with arbitration, each labelled with its topic.

  • Rather than spend two years in court, the firms sent their contract dispute to arbitration and had an answer by June.

    Business

  • The players' union and the owners went to arbitration over the salary formula, and both sides accepted the ruling without complaint.

    Basketball

  • Two songwriters who each claimed the chorus agreed to arbitration, letting one neutral expert decide how the royalties would be split.

    Music

  • The clause sends every dispute to arbitration, so neither side may file in court until the neutral panel has ruled.

    Law

  • Customers who sign the brokerage agreement give up lawsuits and must take any claim to arbitration instead.

    Finance

  • The founders' agreement sends any deadlock to arbitration, with one neutral expert both of them picked in advance.

    Startups

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