Arbitrated vs Arbitrate - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between arbitrated and arbitrate

is that arbitrated is past tense of arbitrate while arbitrate is to make a judgment (on a dispute) as an arbitrator or arbiter.

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(arbitrate)

To make a judgment (on a dispute) as an arbitrator or arbiter

to arbitrate a disputed case

* Shakespeare

There shall your swords and lances arbitrate / The swelling difference of your settled hate.

To submit (a dispute) to such judgment

(mathematics, rare) To assign an object an arbitrary value, or otherwise arbitrarily determine it

We wish to show f is continuous. Arbitrate epsilon greater than zero...

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