Definition of "arbitrates" [arbitrates]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of arbitrate. (verb)

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• "Most buyers trying to nullify contracts have failed to persuade the attorney general's office, which arbitrates most of these cases, to intercede."
• "The second is the Expediency Council, a body that arbitrates disputes between parliament and the unelected Guardian Council, which can block legislation."
• "The Motion Picture Association of America has a Title Registration Bureau, which arbitrates disputes between filmmakers over titles that seem too close, ruling in 1992 that film director Ridley Scott needed to change the title of his film Christopher Columbus after a Dutch company had already registered its own Christopher Columbus -- The Movie."