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Umpire   /ˈəmpˌaɪər/   Listen
Umpire

noun
1.
An official at a baseball game.  Synonym: ump.
2.
Someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue.  Synonyms: arbiter, arbitrator.  "The arbitrator's authority derived from the consent of the disputants" , "An umpire was appointed to settle the tax case"
verb
(past & past part. umpired; pres. part. umpiring)
1.
Be a referee or umpire in a sports competition.  Synonym: referee.






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... every one looked on, and wondered what little game he was up to, it occurred to the umpire that it was a catch, and that the match ...
— Follow My leader - The Boys of Templeton • Talbot Baines Reed

... score was the best the Maroons could do for | |the Hoosiers Saturday on Marshall Field. The count | |was 7-7 when Umpire Hanson called the game in the | |eleventh inning on ...
— News Writing - The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories • M. Lyle Spencer

... of course, Hiller's knowledge of the country was wonderfully convenient. We had great luck in seeing the only fight of the day, the first one of the war. Indeed, I think we caused it. There was a troop of cavalry with a Captain who was afraid to advance. I chided him into doing something, the umpire having confided to me, he would mark him, if he did not. But, he did it wrong. Anyway, he charged a barn with 36 troopers and lost every fourth man. In real warfare he would have lost all his men and all his horses. Cecil and Hiller pursued ...
— Adventures and Letters • Richard Harding Davis

... attaches itself to A Ballade of Dead Cities. It was written in a Theocritean amoebean way, in competition with Mr. Edmund Gosse; he need not be ashamed of the circumstance, for another shepherd, who was umpire, awarded the prize (two kids just severed from their dams) to his ...
— Ballads in Blue China and Verses and Translations • Andrew Lang

... said he, as he confronted the widow, who, in the utmost taste of simple neatness, had arranged her spare dress, to meet the umpire of ...
— The Humors of Falconbridge - A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes • Jonathan F. Kelley


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