umpire
noun/ˈʌmpaɪə(r)/
/ˈʌmpaɪər/
(also North American English, informal ump
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)- (in sports such as tennis and baseball ) a person whose job is to watch a game and make sure that rules are not broken
- The umpire’s decision is final.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryUmpire is used after these nouns:- baseball
Word Originlate Middle English (originally as noumpere) (denoting an arbitrator): from Old French nonper ‘not equal’. The n was lost by wrong division of a noumpere; compare with adder.Want to learn more?
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