The act or process of arbitrating; a decision or settlement made by an arbitrator.
From Old French arbitrement, based on arbitrer (to arbitrate) plus the suffix -ment (denoting an action or result). The -ment suffix comes from Latin -mentum.
The -ment suffix is one of English's most productive word-building tools—we add it to verbs to create nouns for the action or result. Words like judgment, movement, and excitement all follow this pattern, showing how we transform actions into things.
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