umpire

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

um·pire [umpire umpires umpired umpiring] noun, verb BrE [ˈʌmpaɪə(r)] NAmE [ˈʌmpaɪər]
noun (also NAmE informal ump) (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.
compare ↑referee

Word Origin:
late 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.

Example Bank:
•Taylor was given out by the umpire.

 
verb intransitive, transitive
to act as an ↑umpire
•We need someone to umpire.
•~ sth to umpire a game of baseball
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
late 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.

Example Bank:
•to umpire a baseball game/a cricket match

 

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  arbiter, arbitrator, ump, referee