Adjudicate

Quick meaning: Adjudicate is a verb meaning (transitive) To decide, rule on, or settle as a judge.

Meaning

(transitive) To decide, rule on, or settle as a judge.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive, often followed by on) To act as a judge.
2. (Scots law, transitive, as of a debtor's estate) To seize or convey as security.

Example Sentences

In North Carolina, provisional ballots are adjudicated to determine whether the voter was eligible to cast the ballot.

Blinded to the outcomes of HPV testing, samples were thereafter evaluated by cytoscreeners using FocalPoint GS Imaging System (BD), and abnormal findings were adjudicated by pathologists.

The Union Home Ministry has constituted four tribunals […] to adjudicate whether or not there are sufficient grounds for declaring several Jammu and Kashmir-based groups as banned organisations […]

A Court of Arbitration, constituted by the World Bank in The Hague, has brushed aside New Delhi’s objections and concluded that it has the competence to adjudicate on Pakistan’s objection to the Kishenganga and Ralte hydroelectric projects of India.

Word Forms

• adjudicates
• adjudicating
• adjudicated

Synonyms for adjudicate

Depending on context, synonyms include adjudge, arbitrate, deem, doom, hear, judge.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include judge, try, adjudication, arbitral, arbitration, arbitrate.

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