adjudication.

The determination of a dispute or contested issue by an authorized decision maker.

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Words that belong together

• judicial adjudication
• adjudication of a dispute

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The parties submitted the dispute for adjudication after mediation failed.

Adjudication required the panel to apply the stated criteria to the competing claims.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: inference, qualification, analysis, methodology. Disciplines: academic writing, reasoning, research. Commonness: moderately common.