Definition of “arbiter”

Usage examples

• Only you, the final arbiter , can judge if the stories we earmarked are tales which strike and strokes that tell.

  Adair, Tom (Intro), Three Kinds of Kissing - Scottish Short Stories (1993)

• And he is the final arbiter of a country's competitiveness too.

  Business Today (1998)

• It is widely regarded as the semi-official arbiter of when the U. S. economy is in recession or not.

  Globe and Mail (2003)

• The army, arbiter of most of Indonesia's post-colonial history, took a back seat.

  Times, Sunday Times (2004)

• The geology in turn is often related to tectonic plates: a deeper reality still, arbiter of the shape of the world.

  Richard Fortey, THE EARTH: An Intimate History (2004)