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# adjudicate

«adjudicate» in Mova's school dictionary: **To make an official decision about a disagreement or a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (adjudicate, adjudicates, adjudicated, adjudicating)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (formal, law) To make an official decision about a disagreement or a legal case, as a judge does. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adjudicate/#m1)

2) To be the judge of a competition, deciding who wins, such as in music, debating or sport. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adjudicate/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in law to mean deciding a case, and at school for judging contests: a teacher adjudicates the spelling bee. It tells the reader that someone has the power to decide fairly. Phrases: adjudicate a dispute, adjudicate a competition, adjudicate on, adjudicate between.

### examples

- A judge will adjudicate the case next month. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adjudicate/#x1)
- Mrs Patel adjudicated the school debating contest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adjudicate/#x2)
- Three experts adjudicated the piano competition. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adjudicate/#x3)
- The referee had to adjudicate between the two teams. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adjudicate/#x4)
- The court adjudicated in favour of the family. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adjudicate/#x5)
- Who will adjudicate at the singing contest? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adjudicate/#x6)
- It is hard to adjudicate when both sides seem right. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adjudicate/#x7)

### note

Formal; plain words: judge, decide. The person is an adjudicator; the noun is adjudication. Stress on "-ju-": a-JOO-di-cate. Not the same as "judge" in every sentence: you adjudicate a dispute but you judge a person's character.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «adjudicate» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adjudicate/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.