Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The office of an umpire; arbitrament; umpirage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Umpirage; arbitrament.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The post or office of
umpire . - noun
Arbitration .
Etymologies
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umpire + -ship
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Examples
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The matter was ultimately submitted to arbitration at Bloemfontein, under the umpireship of Sir Henry de Villiers, whose award, contrary to expectation, was adverse to the coloured people.
Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) The Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked C. H. Thomas
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Overwhelmed by popular execration, Smith reluctantly departs, registering in the black depths of his soul a resolution to take on the umpireship at once, with a view to gaining an artistic revenge by giving his enemy run out on the earliest possible occasion.
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