Definitions for REFEREE
ˌrɛf əˈriref·er·ee

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. referee, refnoun

   (sports) the chief official (as in boxing or American football) who is expected to ensure fair play

2. reviewer, referee, readernoun

   someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication

3. refereeverb

   an attorney appointed by a court to investigate and report on a case

4. referee, umpireverb

   be a referee or umpire in a sports competition

5. referee, peer reviewverb

   evaluate professionally a colleague's work

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. refereenoun

   An umpire or judge; the official who makes sure the rules are followed during a game

2. refereenoun

   A person who settles a dispute

3. refereenoun

   A person who writes a letter of reference or provides a reference by phone call for someone

4. refereenoun

   An expert who judges the manuscript of an article or book to decide if it should be published

5. refereeverb

   To act as a referee.

6. Etymology: from past participle of referer, from refero; as if, that is, the person to whom something is referred for consideration.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Refereenoun

   One to whom any thing is referred.

   Etymology: from refer.

   Referees and arbitrators seldom forget themselves. Roger L'Estrange.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Referee

   A referee is an official, in a variety of sports and competition, responsible for enforcing the rules of the sport, including sportsmanship decisions such as ejection. The official tasked with this job may be known by a variety of other titles depending on the sport, including umpire, judge, arbiter (chess), commissaire, or technical official (by the International Olympic Committee). Referees may be assisted by umpires, linesmen, timekeepers, touch judges, or video review officials.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. referee

   A referee is an official who watches a game or match closely to enforce the rules and ensure fair play. They have the authority to make decisions regarding fouls, penalties, scoring, or any other issues that arise during the game. Referees are typically used in sports, but can also be used in other competitive scenarios such as academic or professional competitions.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Refereenoun

   one to whom a thing is referred; a person to whom a matter in dispute has been referred, in order that he may settle it

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Referee

   A referee is the person of authority, in a variety of sports, who is responsible for presiding over the game from a neutral point of view and making on the fly decisions that enforce the rules of the sport, including sportsmanship decisions such as ejection. The official tasked with this job may be known, in addition to referee, by a variety of other titles as well, including umpire, judge, arbiter, arbitrator, linesman, commissaire, timekeeper, touch judge or Technical Official.

Matched Categories

1. • Judge
   • Sport

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'REFEREE' in Nouns Frequency: #2373

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How to pronounce REFEREE?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

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   Indian

   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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How to say REFEREE in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of REFEREE in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of REFEREE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of REFEREE in a Sentence

1. Jose Vasquez:

   It's like a game in which the referee is a family member of the other team's captain, why would I waste my time ? During his 14 years as president, Chavez racked up repeated ballot-box victories thanks to his charisma and generous spending of Venezuela's oil revenues - much of it on popular health and nutrition programs, as well as on his own electoral campaigns. The opposition has cried fraud in the past without demonstrating evidence of it, including after a 2004 recall referendum that Chavez won. But October's vote included one incident that some opposition sympathizers see as a tipping point : election officials manually changed results at several voting centers in Bolivar state to tip the result in favor of the Socialist Party candidate, according to election center witnesses. The witnesses produced official poll statements from their voting centers showing that the number of votes for the opposition candidate was higher than those reflected in the National Electoral Council figures for those same centers. The elections council - stacked with Maduro's supporters - has never clarified the issue and did not answer Reuters questions regarding the incident. Maduro's government has never commented. . More commonly, the opposition has complained of obstacles that reduce the likelihood of their supporters voting but are difficult to classify as fraud in a traditional sense - such as last-minute changes to the location of voting centers. In the central state of Lara, Alfredo Alvarez learned just days before the October vote that the elections council had changed Alfredo Alvarez voting center - along with that of an estimated 700,000 Venezuelans in 200 voting centers in predominantly opposition areas. Alfredo Alvarez, Alfredo Alvarez, had to drive around the city of Barquisimeto for several hours because Alfredo Alvarez could not get a clear answer on where Alfredo Alvarez was supposed to vote.

2. President Trump:

   You know, the National Football League ratings are down massively, massively, a referee gets on television, his wife is sitting at home, she’s so proud of him. They’re ruining the game.

3. Darren Urquhart:

   The idea came from witnessing some bad habits that school kids have picked up from the increased coverage of global football, we've seen kids brandish imaginary red cards towards the referee in an attempt to get an opposition player sent off. And also blatantly diving to win penalties.

4. President Trump:

   Mike Tomlin know, the National Football League ratings are down massively, massively, a referee gets on television, his wife is sitting at home, she’s so proud of him. They’re ruining the game.

5. President Trump:

   Mike Tomlin know, the NFL ratings are down massively, massively, a referee gets on television, his wife is sitting at home, she’s so proud of him. They’re ruining the game.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=REFEREE
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Referee
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=REFEREE
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referee
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/REFEREE
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=REFEREE
8. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=REFEREE