Other forms: adjudicated, adjudicating, adjudicates
To adjudicate is to act as judge and decide a dispute. Adjudicate the claim, adjudicating between them, adjudicate on the matter.
It means deciding formally under rules, which is what separates it from arbitrating a quarrel between friends. It takes on or between as often as a direct object. The Latin is ad plus judicare, to judge.
1verbadjudicateTo act as judge and decide a dispute.
“An independent panel will adjudicate the dispute between the club and the player.”
adjudicate is a deciding.
Latin adiudicare means to award or judge, from ad, to, plus iudicare, to judge, from iudex, a judge.
Latin
adiudico
English, today
adjudicate
Built from
Latin adiudico, from ad + iūdicō (“to judge”). a doublet of adjudge.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA