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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Subject to arbitration.
  • adjective Appropriate for referral to an arbitrator.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Arbitrary; depending on the will. Spelman.
  • Subject to arbitration; subject to the decision of an arbiter, court, judge, or other appointed authority; discretionary.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Archaic Capable of being decided by arbitration; determinable.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective law Able to be arbitrated; subject to arbitration.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective appropriate for or subject to settlement by arbitration

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Examples

  • For example, if Kobe said I will take a pay cut (arbitrable amount) to get on an elite team, I have no doubt the league could set something up.

    Matthew Yglesias » Yi Jianlian 2007

  • For example, if Kobe said I will take a pay cut (arbitrable amount) to get on an elite team, I have no doubt the league could set something up

    Matthew Yglesias » Yi Jianlian 2007

  • And there are also some other reasons and arguments, but let us stop here --- at least the whole question is not that easily arbitrable.

    Fellay speaks: The talks begin in the autumn of 2009 2009

  • "There is a presumption that employment disputes are arbitrable."

    When Suing Your Boss Is Not an Option 2007

  • Yet it must be borne in mind that most of the really dangerous disputes, involving likelihood of war, are not arbitrable in their nature, and will come before the

    The Unity of Civilization Various

  • "FEHA," says McCauley, "and other statutory employment claims have been held to be arbitrable for more than 20 years and Sheen's counsel's flat assertion that such statutory claims are not arbitrable is flatly wrong."

    Forbes.com: News Victoria Pynchon 2011

  • Arbitration clause "contains an exception about what is, in fact arbitrable."

    Forbes.com: News Victoria Pynchon 2011

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    Rational Review 2009

  • It takes rape and a whole lot of non-rape and makes it non-arbitrable (not legally non-arbitrable, but de facto I'm betting - I could be proven wrong) for contractors accepting Federal funds under the 2010 DOD appropriations bill.

    MetaFilter 2009

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