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Decider vs Arbiter - What's the difference?

decider | arbiter |

As nouns the difference between decider and arbiter

is that decider is a person, divinity, or authoritative text which decides 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.

decider

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Noun

(en noun)
  • A person, divinity, or authoritative text which decides.
  • * 1667 , anon., "George Fox digg'd out of his burrowes, or An offer of disputation on fourteen proposalls...". John Foster, Boston, pp. 89-90:
    • This written and revealed will of God I said was the Judge and Decider of all Questions.
  • * 1758 , Aaron Leaming and Jacob Spicer, The grants, concessions, and original constitutions of the province of New-Jersey , Philadelphia, p. 680:
    • The Determination of his Majesty, who is the only proper decider of this Matter.
  • * 1885 , Friedrich Delitzsch, "General Notes: The Religion of the Kassites," Hebraica , vol 1 no 3 (Jan), p. 190:
    • The god Adar, which, with its two oft-occurring idiographs Bar and Nin-ib, is preferably designated as the "Decider " (Entschneider ).
  • * 1967 , , "How Decisions are Caused," The Journal of Philosophy, vol 64 no 5, 15 Mar, p. 151:
    • Although the decider may know any of the principles in the sequence, he cannot know every such principle.
  • * 2006 April 18, , White House press conference, Washington, DC:
    • "I'm the decider , and I decide what is best."
  • (chiefly, British, sports) An event or action which decides the outcome of a contested matter.
  • * 2007 Feb 22 (action)'', Liverpool show of unity recalls old magic ''Guardian Sport :
    • . . . when the Welshman laid on the 74th-minute decider .
  • * 2007 Feb. 10 (event)'', France aim to end four years of regret with seven-week sacrifice, ''Guardian Sport :
    • France will meet Ireland again in the probable decider for their World Cup pool.
  • (computing) A Turing machine that halts regardless of its input.

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    arbiter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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
    • In order to protect individual liberty there must be an arbiter between the governing powers and the governed.
  • (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.
    • Television and film, not ''Vogue and similar magazines, are the arbiters of fashion.
  • (electronics) A component in circuitry that allocates scarce resources.

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    () * arbitrable * arbitrage * arbitrary * arbitrate * arbitration * arbitrator * arbitress

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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
    • 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.

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