referee
See also: référée
English
Etymology
From Middle English [Term?], from past participle of Old French referer (“to relate, to refer”), from Latin referre (“to carry back, to report, to notify”); as if refer + -ee, that is, the person to whom something is referred for consideration.
Pronunciation
An association football referee (right) issues a yellow card to a player.
Noun
referee (plural referees)
- (sports) An umpire or judge; an official who makes sure the rules are followed during a game.
- The referee kicked Jim out of the game for fighting.
- A person who settles a dispute.
- (UK) A person who writes a letter of reference or provides a reference by phone call for someone. US English: reference.
- Your application, along with letters from three referees, should be received by January 31.
- An expert who judges the manuscript of an article or book to decide if it should be published.
Usage notes
- In general, and as a usage guideline, a referee moves around with the game, while an umpire stays (approximately) in one place.
Derived terms
Translations
sport: umpire, judge of a game
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person who settles a dispute
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person who writes a letter of reference
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expert who judges a manuscript
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Verb
referee (third-person singular simple present referees, present participle refereeing, simple past and past participle refereed)
- To act as a referee.
- He has to referee three hockey games this weekend.
- She has to finish refereeing an article for Nature.
Translations
to act as a judge of a game or contest
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to settle a dispute
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to write a letter of reference
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to judge a manuscript
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Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈrefereː/, [ˈre̞fe̞re̞ː]
- IPA(key): /ˈreferiː/, [ˈre̞fe̞riː]
- Rhymes: -efereː
- Syllabification(key): re‧fe‧ree
Noun
referee
Declension
| Inflection of referee (Kotus type 20/filee, no gradation) | ||||
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| nominative | referee | refereet | ||
| genitive | refereen | refereiden refereitten | ||
| partitive | refereetä | refereitä | ||
| illative | refereehen refereeseen |
refereihin refereisiin | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | referee | refereet | ||
| accusative | nom. | referee | refereet | |
| gen. | refereen | |||
| genitive | refereen | refereiden refereitten | ||
| partitive | refereetä | refereitä | ||
| inessive | refereessä | refereissä | ||
| elative | refereestä | refereistä | ||
| illative | refereehen refereeseen |
refereihin refereisiin | ||
| adessive | refereellä | refereillä | ||
| ablative | refereeltä | refereiltä | ||
| allative | refereelle | refereille | ||
| essive | refereenä | refereinä | ||
| translative | refereeksi | refereiksi | ||
| abessive | refereettä | refereittä | ||
| instructive | — | referein | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
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Further reading
- “referee”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
Spanish
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