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ref·e·ree

(rĕf′ə-rē′)

1. One to whom something is referred, especially for settlement, decision, or an opinion as to the thing's quality.

2. Sports & Games An official supervising the play; an umpire.

3. Law A person appointed by a court to assist a judge in the trying of a case or to hear certain types of cases.

v. ref·e·reed, ref·e·ree·ing, ref·e·rees

v.tr.

To judge as referee.

v.intr.

To act as referee.

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referee

(ˌrɛfəˈriː)

1. a person to whom reference is made, esp for an opinion, information, or a decision

2. (General Sporting Terms) the umpire or judge in any of various sports, esp football and boxing, responsible for ensuring fair play according to the rules

3. a person who is willing to testify to the character or capabilities of someone

4. (Law) law See Official Referee

5. (Professions) law See Official Referee

vb, -ees, -eeing or -eed

6. (General Sporting Terms) to act as a referee (in); preside (over)

7. (Law) to act as a referee (in); preside (over)

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

ref•er•ee

(ˌrɛf əˈri)

n., v. -eed, -ee•ing. n.

1. a person to whom something is referred for decision or settlement.

2. a judge having functions fixed by the rules of a game or sport; umpire.

3. an authority who evaluates proposals for funding, scholarly papers for publication, etc.

4. Law. a person selected by a court to take testimony and recommend a decision.

v.t.

5. to preside over as referee.

v.i.

6. to act as referee.

[1605–15]

syn: See judge.

referee

a person who decides a matter when the parties to it are in conflict; an umpire or judge.

umpire

– referee

An umpire or referee is an official whose job is to make sure that a game is played fairly and that the rules are not broken.

1. 'umpire'

These games have an umpire or umpires:

badminton	baseball	cricket	table tennis	tennis
volleyball

2. 'referee'

These games have a referee:

basketball	billiards	boxing	football	rugby football
snooker	wrestling

The official in charge of a hockey match is sometimes called an umpire and sometimes a referee.

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referee

Past participle: refereed
Gerund: refereeing

Imperative
referee
referee

Present
I referee
you referee
he/she/it referees
we referee
you referee
they referee

Preterite
I refereed
you refereed
he/she/it refereed
we refereed
you refereed
they refereed

Present Continuous
I am refereeing
you are refereeing
he/she/it is refereeing
we are refereeing
you are refereeing
they are refereeing

Present Perfect
I have refereed
you have refereed
he/she/it has refereed
we have refereed
you have refereed
they have refereed

Past Continuous
I was refereeing
you were refereeing
he/she/it was refereeing
we were refereeing
you were refereeing
they were refereeing

Past Perfect
I had refereed
you had refereed
he/she/it had refereed
we had refereed
you had refereed
they had refereed

Future
I will referee
you will referee
he/she/it will referee
we will referee
you will referee
they will referee

Future Perfect
I will have refereed
you will have refereed
he/she/it will have refereed
we will have refereed
you will have refereed
they will have refereed

Future Continuous
I will be refereeing
you will be refereeing
he/she/it will be refereeing
we will be refereeing
you will be refereeing
they will be refereeing

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been refereeing
you have been refereeing
he/she/it has been refereeing
we have been refereeing
you have been refereeing
they have been refereeing

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been refereeing
you will have been refereeing
he/she/it will have been refereeing
we will have been refereeing
you will have been refereeing
they will have been refereeing

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been refereeing
you had been refereeing
he/she/it had been refereeing
we had been refereeing
you had been refereeing
they had been refereeing

Conditional
I would referee
you would referee
he/she/it would referee
we would referee
you would referee
they would referee

Past Conditional
I would have refereed
you would have refereed
he/she/it would have refereed
we would have refereed
you would have refereed
they would have refereed

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referee

Arbiter who officiates the game and is also the time keeper.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

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Noun	1.	referee - (sports) the chief official (as in boxing or American football) who is expected to ensure fair play ref athletics, sport - an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition official - someone who administers the rules of a game or sport; "the golfer asked for an official who could give him a ruling"
	2.	referee - someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication reviewer, reader critic - anyone who expresses a reasoned judgment of something scanner - someone who scans verse to determine the number and prosodic value of the syllables
	3.	referee - an attorney appointed by a court to investigate and report on a case law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" attorney, lawyer - a professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice
Verb	1.	referee - be a referee or umpire in a sports competition umpire athletics, sport - an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition judge - determine the result of (a competition)
	2.	referee - evaluate professionally a colleague's work peer review critique, review - appraise critically; "She reviews books for the New York Times"; "Please critique this performance"

referee

noun

1. umpire, judge, ref (informal), arbiter, arbitrator, adjudicator The referee stopped the fight.

verb

1. umpire, judge, mediate, adjudicate, arbitrate He has refereed in two World Cups.

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

referee

noun

A person, usually appointed, who decides the issues or results, or supervises the conduct, of a competition or conflict:

arbiter, arbitrator, judge, umpire.

Sports: ref, ump.

verb

To make a decision about (a controversy or dispute, for example) after deliberation, as in a court of law:

adjudge, adjudicate, arbitrate, decide, decree, determine, judge, rule, umpire.

Translations

حَكَمحَكَم على الشَّخْصِيَّه أثناء المُقابلاتيَحْكُم في مُباراه

съдия

rozhodčíručitelsoudcesoudcovat

dommerreferencedømme

Schiedsrichter Referenz

διαιτητής

árbitro arbitrar

erotuomarisovittelijasuosittelijavälimies

arbitre arbitrer

sportski sudacstručnjaksudacsutkinjavještak

ajánlóvezet

ábyrgîarmaîurdæmadómari

arbitro referenza arbitrare

レフェリー

심판

scheidsrechter arbiter

pískaťrozhodovaťručiteľ

sodnik

domarereferens

กรรมการ

hakemhakemlik yapmaktavsiye mektubu yazan kimsebilirkişi

trọng tài

裁判员介绍人担任裁判推荐人

referee

[ˌrefəˈriː]

A. N

1. (in dispute, Sport) → árbitro/a m/f

2. (Brit) (for application, post) → avalista mf, persona f que avala
Pérez has named you as a referee → Pérez dice que usted está dispuesto a avalarle

3. [of learned paper] → evaluador(a) m/f

B. VT

1. [+ game] → dirigir, arbitrar en

2. [+ learned paper] → evaluar

C. VI → arbitrar, hacer de árbitro

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

referee

[ˌrɛfəˈriː]

(SPORT) → arbitre m

(British) (for job application) → répondant(e) m/f

vt → arbitrer

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

referee

(Ftbl, Rugby, fig) → Schiedsrichter(in) m(f); (Boxing) → Ringrichter(in) m(f); (Judo, Wrestling) → Kampfrichter(in) m(f)

(Jur) → Schiedsrichter(in) m(f)

(Brit: = person giving a reference) → Referenz f; to be a referee for somebody → jdm als Referenz dienen

vt (Sport, fig) → Schiedsrichter(in) sein bei; match also → (als Schieds-/Ring-/Kampfrichter(in)) leiten; (Ftbl also) → pfeifen (inf)

vi (Sport, fig) → Schiedsrichter(in) sein, (den) Schiedsrichter/(die) Schiedsrichterin machen or spielen (inf); (Ftbl also) → pfeifen (inf); who’s going to referee? → wer macht den Schiedsrichter?

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

referee

[ˌrɛfəˈriː]

1. n

a. (in dispute) (Sport) → arbitro (Tennis) → giudice m di gara

b. (Brit) (for job application) → referenza
to give sb as a referee → dare il nome di qn per referenze
to be referee for sb → scrivere una lettera di referenze per qn

2. vt → arbitrare

refer

(rəˈfəː) – past tense, past participle reˈferred – verb

(with to).

1. to talk or write (about something); to mention. He doesn't like anyone referring to his wooden leg; I referred to your theories in my last book.

2. to relate to, concern, or apply to. My remarks refer to your last letter.

3. to send or pass on to someone else for discussion, information, a decision etc. The case was referred to a higher law-court; I'll refer you to the managing director.

4. to look for information (in something). If I'm not sure how to spell a word, I refer to a dictionary.

referee (refəˈriː) noun

1. a person who controls boxing, football etc matches, makes sure that the rules are not broken etc. The referee sent two of the players off the field.

2. a person who is willing to provide a note about one's character, ability etc, eg when one applies for new job.

verb – past tense, past participle ˌrefeˈreed –

to act as a referee for a match. I've been asked to referee (a football match) on Saturday.

reference (ˈrefərəns) noun

1. (an) act of referring (to something); a mention (of something). He made several references to her latest book; With reference to your request for information, I regret to inform you that I am unable to help you.

2. a note about one's character, ability etc, eg when one applies for a new job. Our new secretary had excellent references from her previous employers.

3. an indication in a book, report etc, showing where one got one's information or where further information can be found.

reference book

a book which is not usually read from beginning to end but which is consulted occasionally for information, eg a dictionary or encyclopaedia.

reference library

a library of books to be looked at for information but not borrowed.

reference, noun, is spelt with -r-.
referred and referring are spelt with -rr-.

referee

→ حَكَم rozhodčí dommer Schiedsrichter διαιτητής árbitro erotuomari arbitre sportski sudac arbitro レフェリー 심판 scheidsrechter dommer sędzia árbitro судья domare กรรมการ hakem trọng tài 裁判员

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Terry O'Sullivan was now in the hands of the Board of Rules and Social Referees. They spoke to him briefly and softly, and conducted him out through the same door at the rear.

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Were they referees appointed to act at the coming race?

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"All I know, Genevieve, is that you feel good in the ring when you've got the man where you want him, when he's had a punch up both sleeves waiting for you and you've never given him an opening to land 'em, when you've landed your own little punch an' he's goin' groggy, an' holdin' on, an' the referee's dragging him off so's you can go in an' finish 'm, an' all the house is shouting an' tearin' itself loose, an' you know you're the best man, an' that you played m' fair an' won out because you're the best man.

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Great anxiety prevails in West Surrey, and earthworks are being thrown up to check the advance Londonward." That was how the Sunday SUN put it, and a clever and remarkably prompt "handbook" article in the REFEREE compared the affair to a menagerie suddenly let loose in a village.

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He said he knew the sort of place I meant; where everybody went to bed at eight o'clock, and you couldn't get a REFEREE for love or money, and had to walk ten miles to get your baccy.

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His words were interrupted by the keeper of The Towers whose duty it was not only to announce the games and the stakes, but to act as referee as well.

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"I'm not casting reflections on the referee, or the present company.

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In this abstruse pursuit; in making an account for Peggotty, of all the property into which she had come; in arranging all the affairs in an orderly manner; and in being her referee and adviser on every point, to our joint delight; I passed the week before the funeral.

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“I rather guess ‘twill be left out to men,” added Hiram, with an air equally balanced between doubt and assurance, but which judge Temple understood to mean certainty; “I some think that I am appointed a referee in the case myself; Jotham as much as told me that he should take me.

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Frustrated in the struggle to get the crowd back, the referee fired his revolver in the air, and the tug-of-war was on.

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Maternal societies for confining poor women; Magdalen societies for rescuing poor women; strong-minded societies for putting poor women into poor men's places, and leaving the men to shift for themselves;-- he was vice-president, manager, referee to them all.

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Beverley could almost hear the voice of the referee uttering the count.

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