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umpire

noun
🔊/ˈʌmpaɪə(r)/
🔊/ˈʌmpaɪər/
(also North American English, informal ump
🔊/ʌmp/
🔊/ʌmp/
)
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  1. (in sports such as tennis and baseball 网球、棒球等体育运动) a person whose job is to watch a game and make sure that rules are not broken裁判员
    • The umpire’s decision is final.裁判的裁定是不可更改的。
    compare refereeTopics Sports: ball and racket sportsc1
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryUmpire is used after these nouns:
    • baseball
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    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.

umpire

verb
🔊/ˈʌmpaɪə(r)/
🔊/ˈʌmpaɪər/
[intransitive, transitive]
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they umpire
🔊/ˈʌmpaɪə(r)/
🔊/ˈʌmpaɪər/
he / she / it umpires
🔊/ˈʌmpaɪəz/
🔊/ˈʌmpaɪərz/
past simple umpired
🔊/ˈʌmpaɪəd/
🔊/ˈʌmpaɪərd/
past participle umpired
🔊/ˈʌmpaɪəd/
🔊/ˈʌmpaɪərd/
-ing form umpiring
🔊/ˈʌmpaɪərɪŋ/
🔊/ˈʌmpaɪərɪŋ/
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  1. to act as an umpire（为…）做裁判员，当裁判
    • We need someone to umpire.我们得找个人当裁判。🔊🔊
    • umpire something to umpire a game of baseball做棒球赛裁判
    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.