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  • verb Present participle of referee.
  • noun the peer review process

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

  • noun the act of umpiring

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Examples

  • So condoned biased refereeing is also ‘part of the game?’

    The Volokh Conspiracy » How Jonathan Adler Gets It Wrong, and Soccer Gets It Right: 2010

  • Ironically it was Saracens 'Brendan Venter who last week highlighted the current disparity in refereeing interpretations across the Channel and the game today fully underlined his point.

    Leicester turn air blue against Saracens in rage at referee exchange Robert Kitson at Vicarage Road 2010

  • Arabs, particularly Palestinians, are nervous that Obama seems prepared to give the job of top diplomat to a senator from New York who has spent eight years cultivating her pro-Israel constituency and would continue, they think, a lack of U.S. evenhandedness in refereeing the Israeli-Palestinian dispute.

    The Sunday Word: Axelrod on the Auto Bailout - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • The refereeing is much looser and more impressionistic, even at an academic press.

    Cooked Books « Isegoria 2008

  • Arabs, particularly Palestinians, are nervous that Obama seems prepared to give the job of top diplomat to a senator from New York who has spent eight years cultivating her pro-Israel constituency and would continue, they think, a lack of U.S. evenhandedness in refereeing the Israeli-Palestinian dispute.

    The Sunday Word: Axelrod on the Auto Bailout - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • Unfortunately for Dr. Newdow, the mother she spends the other 20 days or so with is just fine with the pledge, and the court isn't interested in refereeing the family feud.

    Archive 2004-06-01 2004

  • Unfortunately for Dr. Newdow, the mother she spends the other 20 days or so with is just fine with the pledge, and the court isn't interested in refereeing the family feud.

    Damn them. 2004

  • Unfortunately for Dr. Newdow, the mother she spends the other 20 days or so with is just fine with the pledge, and the court isn't interested in refereeing the family feud.

    One nation, reading blogs... 2004

  • Unfortunately for Dr. Newdow, the mother she spends the other 20 days or so with is just fine with the pledge, and the court isn't interested in refereeing the family feud.

    Oh so pure... 2004

  • Unfortunately for Dr. Newdow, the mother she spends the other 20 days or so with is just fine with the pledge, and the court isn't interested in refereeing the family feud.

    Quote of the day 2004

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