0 to make a judgment in an argument, usually because asked to do so by those involved -- （通常指在爭議方要求下）仲裁，裁決，公斷
As local courts are costly and unable to cope with the number of cases, village meetings to arbitrate in land matters have become more popular.
They also step in to arbitrate between squabbling contributors about the presentation of controversial topics.
It appeared to stand outside the realm of, and therefore free to arbitrate over, social conflict and political competition.
Interested parties each turned towards the seigniorial state to arbitrate their disputes.
Another was the social and geographical extension of a national public sphere : neighbourly conflicts were increasingly arbitrated impersonally and by supra-local authority.
We then examine to what extent equality of opportunity may help us arbitrate between opposing distributive principles.
Politics is the collective activity in which any group or community engages when it seeks to arbitrate competing claims of need.
The latter may arbitrate colour, materials, and massing, as well as grant the entitlements necessary to build anything at all.
