Other forms: arbitrations
Arbitration is settling a dispute through a chosen judge, outside court. Go to arbitration, binding arbitration, an arbitration clause.
The arbitrator decides, which is the difference from mediation, and the decision binds — that is what the parties agreed to when they signed the clause. It is private and usually faster than litigation, and the criticism is that compulsory arbitration clauses in consumer contracts take away the right to sue. Note arbitrate, arbitrator.
1nounarbitrationSettling a dispute through a chosen judge, outside court.
“The pay dispute went to arbitration, and both sides accepted the decision.”
arbitration is a way of settling disputes.
Latin arbitratio comes from arbitrari, to judge, from arbiter, an onlooker called in to decide. Arbiter and arbitrary come from the same judge.
Latin
arbitratio
Old French
arbitration
Middle English
arbitracion
English, today
arbitration
Built from
From Middle English arbitracion, from Old French arbitration, from Latin arbitratio, from arbitror. From Middle English arbitracion, borrowed from Old French arbitration, from Latin arbitratio, from arbitrari (“to arbitrate, judge”); see arbitrate.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA