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Litigate vs Arbitrate - What's the difference?

litigate | arbitrate |

As verbs the difference between litigate and arbitrate

is that litigate is to go to law while arbitrate is to make a judgment (on a dispute) as an arbitrator or arbiter.

litigate

English

Verb

(litigat)
  • to go to law
  • Derived terms

    * litigable * litigation

    arbitrate

    English

    Verb

  • 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...