adjudicate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to make a formal judgment on a dispute

   A panel was appointed to adjudicate the boundary dispute.

From Latin adiudicatus, past participle of adiudicare ('to award, adjudge'), from ad- ('to') + iudicare ('to judge'), from iudex ('judge'), from ius ('law') + dicere ('to say').

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