adjudicate

English

WOTD – 12 September 2011

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adiūdicō, adiūdicātus, from ad + iūdicō (“to judge”). Doublet of adjudge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈd͡ʒudɪˌkeɪt/

• Audio (General Australian):

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Verb

adjudicate (third-person singular simple present adjudicates, present participle adjudicating, simple past and past participle adjudicated)

1. (transitive) to decide, rule on, or settle as a judge.
   • 2024 April 29, Josh Pringle, “Ottawa looks to move photo radar and red light camera tickets out of provincial courts”, in ottawa.ctvnews.ca‎^[1]:

     with municipally appointed screening and hearing officers adjudicating ticket disputes instead of the provincial court system.

   • 2024 April 7, PTI, “Tribunals formed to adjudicate if sufficient grounds available to declare J-K groups as banned”, in deccanherald.com‎^[2]:

     The Union Home Ministry has constituted four tribunals […] to adjudicate whether or not there are sufficient grounds for declaring several Jammu and Kashmir-based groups as banned organisations […]

2. (intransitive, often followed by on) to act as a judge.
   • 2023 July 7, Anirban Bhaumik, “Court of Arbitration concludes it can adjudicate on Pakistan’s objection to India’s hydel projects, New Delhi rejects ruling”, in deccanherald.com‎^[3]:

     A Court of Arbitration, constituted by the World Bank in The Hague, has brushed aside New Delhi’s objections and concluded that it has the competence to adjudicate on Pakistan’s objection to the Kishenganga and Ralte hydroelectric projects of India.

3. (Scots law, transitive, as of a debtor's estate) to seize or convey as security.

Synonyms

• arbitrate
• decide
• settle
• resolve
• try

Derived terms

• adjudication
• adjudicative
• adjudicator
• adjudicatory
• readjudicate
• unadjudicated

 

Related terms

• abjudicate
• adjudge

Translations

to settle a legal case or other dispute

• Armenian: դատել (hy) (datel), վճռել (hy) (včṙel)
• Bulgarian: отсъждам (bg) (otsǎždam)
• Catalan: adjudicar (ca), jutjar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 裁決／裁决 (zh) (cáijué)

• Czech: rozsoudit (cs)
• Dutch: berechten (nl)
• Finnish: ratkaista (fi), tuomita (fi)
• French: juger (fr), trancher (fr)
• German: urteilen (de), entscheiden (de), richten (de)
• Hungarian: ítéletet hoz (hu), határozatot hoz (hu)
• Indonesian: mengadili (id)
• Malay: menghakimi
• Norwegian: bedømme, dømme (no), pådømme
• Russian: суди́ть (ru) (sudítʹ), выноси́ть реше́ние (vynosítʹ rešénije)
• Spanish: adjudicar (es), juzgar (es)
• Swedish: döma (sv)

to act as a judge

• Armenian: դատավարել (hy) (datavarel)
• Bulgarian: присъждам (bg) (prisǎždam), решавам дело (rešavam delo)
• Catalan: jutjar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 判決／判决 (zh) (pànjué)

• Finnish: tuomita (fi)
• German: richten (de)
• Norwegian: dømme (no)
• Spanish: juzgar (es)

References

• “adjudicate, v.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

Spanish

Verb

adjudicate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of adjudicar combined with te