English-French translations for arbiter

• arbitre
  Le médiateur est là, nous le savons tous, en tant qu'arbitre juste et objectif. The Ombudsman is there, as we all know, to act as the arbiter in a fair and objective way.
  En tant que rapporteur fictif de mon groupe, j'ai dû assumer le rôle d'arbitre. As the shadow rapporteur for my group, I was given the role of arbiter.
  Les êtres humains sont une création de Dieu et nous ne devrions pas nous poser en tant qu'arbitres dans les questions de vie et de mort. Human beings are God's creation and we should not set ourselves up as arbiters in questions of life and death.
• ombudsman

Definition of arbiter

• A person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them; an arbitrator
• }} A person or object having the power of judging and determining, or ordaining, without control; one whose power of deciding and governing is not limited
• A component in circuitry that allocates scarce resources
• To act as arbiter

Examples

• Television and film, not Vogue and similar magazines, are the arbiters of fashion.

Related words

• arbiter of taste
• arbiter elegantiarum
• bus arbiter