arbitrationnoun [ U ]
uk/ˌɑː.bɪˈtreɪ.ʃən/us/ˌɑːr.bəˈtreɪ.ʃən/the process of solving an argument between people by helping them to agree to an acceptable solution:
Both sides in the dispute have agreed to go to arbitration (= to have the disagreement solved by an arbitrator).
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Debate & discussion
- arena
- compare
- conciliate
- dialectic
- float around
- fly
- fly around
- get down to business idiom
- kick sth around
- negotiable
- negotiate
- parley
- reason with sb
- reasoning
- sophistry
- speak
- talk sth out
- talk sth over
- toss
- weigh in
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