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umpire
/ˈʌmpaɪər/ noun [C]Definition
› someone whose job is to watch a sports game and make sure that the players obey the rules: a tennis/cricket umpire
umpire verb [I, T] (Definition of umpire noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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