Autocrat vs Arbiter - What's the difference?
autocrat | arbiter |
An absolute ruler with infinite power
A title borne by some such Monarchs, as in Byzantium and tsarist Russia
A person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them; an arbitrator.
* 1931 , William Bennett Munro, The government of the United States, national, state, and local , page 495
(with of) 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.
(electronics) A component in circuitry that allocates scarce resources.
To act as arbiter.
* 2003 , Jean-Benoit Nadeau, Julie Barlow, Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't be Wrong: Why We Love France But Not the French , page 116
As nouns the difference between autocrat and arbiter
is that autocrat is an absolute ruler with infinite power while arbiter is a person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them; an arbitrator.As a verb arbiter is
to act as arbiter.autocrat
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Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* autocrator * big man * despot * dictator * * monarch * tyrantReferences
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*arbiter
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Noun
(en noun)- In order to protect individual liberty there must be an arbiter between the governing powers and the governed.
- Television and film, not ''Vogue and similar magazines, are the arbiters of fashion.
Verb
(en verb)- Worse, since there was no institution to arbiter disagreements between Parliament and the government, whenever Parliament voted against the government on the smallest issues, coalitions fragmented, and governments had to be recomposed.
