Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of the nature of arbitration; relating to arbitration; having power to arbitrate: as, “he urged arbitrative tribunals,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective of or pertaining to arbitration; relating to or having the authority to arbitrate.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or having the authority to arbitrate
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Examples
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Or we can explore the tradition I have been trying to work with here and ask what an 'interactive' pluralism would look like, that had thought through what was involved in the state's arbitrative and balancing function in a way which allowed active partnership and exchange between communities themselves and between communities and state authority.
David Nicholls Memorial Lecture: 'Law, Power and Peace: Christian Perspectives on Sovereignty' 2005
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Or we can explore the tradition I have been trying to work with here and ask what an 'interactive' pluralism would look like, that had thought through what was involved in the state's arbitrative and balancing function in a way which allowed active partnership and exchange between communities themselves and between communities and state authority.
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Added to this was a tacit claim upon the partners 'arbitrative powers, or the equal right to request them to step outside if the interviews were of a private nature.
Stories in Light and Shadow Bret Harte 1869
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Notwithstanding this, the Estates meanwhile assembled, but declared themselves incompetent, regarding themselves simply in the light of an arbitrative committee, and, as such, threw out the constitution presented by the king, June, 1838.
Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 Wolfgang Menzel 1835
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