English-Portuguese translations for arbiter

• árbitro
  O Provedor de Justiça Europeu existe, como todos sabemos, para actuar como árbitro, de uma forma justa e objectiva. The Ombudsman is there, as we all know, to act as the arbiter in a fair and objective way.
  Como relator sombra do meu grupo, foi-me atribuído o papel de árbitro. As the shadow rapporteur for my group, I was given the role of arbiter.
  A Europa não deve limitar-se neste caso a desempenhar o papel de árbitro. Europe must not confine itself to playing the role of arbiter in this matter.

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