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Anadjudicator is someone who presides,judges, andarbitrates during a formaldispute orcompetition. They have numerous purposes, including preliminarylegal judgments, to determine applicant eligibility, or to assess contenders' performance in competitions.
An example is a person who makes a preliminaryjudgment as to anunemployment insurance claim. An adjudicator makes an initial decision to keep a case from going to court. Although the adjudicator's decision does not have legal weight, the adjudicator has rendered a decision. Although a case can be appealed to a judge, the adjudicator's decision is frequently accepted as the same as what a judge would make, keeping many time-consuming cases out of the court system.
The term is used to refer to a panel of judges in the process of consideringsecurity clearances for the United States government. The panel reviews information from abackground investigation and apolygraph and decides whether to grant the clearance. Adjudicators can be a medical review board that makesdisability and retirement benefit decisions for Federal employees and military personnel. Adjudicators also exist for immigration benefits.[1]
An adjudicator (often referred to as a "judge", "umpire", "arbiter", or more archaically as a "daysman"[2]), is a person who gives a critical evaluation of performances incompetitions, festivals ortalent shows, resulting in the award of marks, medals or prizes.
InBP debate, an adjudicator[3] weighs arguments and decides rankings in the house. There are different types of adjudicators, each with their respective duties and levels of authority: chair, panelist, and trainee. In the event that the chair is the chief adjudicator of the tournament, they are referred to as "Speaker".
1 –archaic: UMPIRE, ARBITER.2 –archaic: DAY LABORER.
