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Definition of referee

(sports) the chief official (as in boxing or American football) who is expected to ensure fair play
an attorney appointed by a court to investigate and report on a case
someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication
evaluate professionally a colleague''s work
be a referee or umpire in a sports competition

Similar Words: ref, reviewer, reader, peer review, umpire

Hyponyms: scanner

Derivational Morphology: umpire, refer, peer review, review, critique, reviewer, reader, umpirage, officiation, officiating, refereeing, ump, ref

Language Translations:
Bosnian: sudija		Bulgarian: съдия
Dutch: scheidsrechter		Finnish: erotuomari
French: arbitre		German: Schiedsrichter
Greek: διαιτητής		Italian: arbitro
Korean: 심판		Macedonian: судија
Portuguese: árbitro		Spanish: árbitro
Swedish: domare		Turkish: hakem

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