Referee meaning

Noun: referee

Pronunciation: (re-fu’ree)

Referee meaning:

1. (Sport) the chief official (as in boxing or hockey) who is expected to ensure fair play. Synonym: ref
2. Someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication. Synonyms: reader, reviewer
3. (Law) an attorney appointed by a court to investigate and report on a case.
4. Someone who writes a reference letter for a job candidate.

Verb: referee

Referee meaning:

1. Be a referee or umpire in a sports competition. Synonym: umpire
2. Evaluate professionally a colleague’s work. Synonym: peer review

Quotations: Carlos Tevez – He spent the whole game calling me a ‘lousy foreigner’ and saying I wouldn’t finish the match. We Argentines have to worry not only about the game but also about the refereeing.

Glenroy Dugandrew – I don’t want to sound biased but I think he was refereeing on our side, giving all the cards on one side and I don’t think he gave many cards on the other side.

Kevin Constantine – If you look at the way we do our scrimmages here it’s all about keeping the game moving and having less whistles. It’s a more-fun way to watch the game. So I think from a fan perspective, anything in the game that can keep the puck in play and cut down the waiting around for referees to drop pucks in face-off situations are good. So I have no problem.

Bobby Lutz – I saw the guys get tangled up and Lee was trying to get free. I didn’t see it all. The referee said Lee threw an elbow. You need to ask them. Technically they can’t use the replay to call a foul. They said they already had the foul on the floor, but I never saw it signalled until after they went to the monitor.

Michel Therrien – We figured it should have been a five-minute major. But the referee didn’t call it. Turned out to be down the road the difference in the game, but there’s nothing we can do about it.

Drew Moor – It’s tough because it’s a split-second decision. I thought he actually did a good job getting around in front of him and you can’t leave it up to the referee’s judgment to make the call like that. In the end it ended up being a pretty good decision since we got the three points.

Sample sentences:

1. You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.
2. The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
3. African football officials have to take another look at the African game because the Europeans are going to laugh at us if the refereeing is like that.
4. Officials are probably our biggest challenge right now. Because of the state tournament going on, it’s hard to find referees.
5. I’m not sure the referee knows the rules and that went both ways for both sides.
6. Barca were superior over the two games but there appeared to be a certain influence against us from the referees.
7. One of the major successes of the tournament so far has been the refereeing, because I can’t recall many people talking about it. There have been very few bad incidents, hardly any citing offenses and Watson’s looking forward to tomorrow’s game and so are we.
8. I think a much easier and more viable solution for this type of situation would be to have more referees. In basketball, which has fewer players on the court, you have several controlling the game while we just have two linesmen and the referee. It would be much easier to put a linesman behind the goal or next to the post, and I think this would sort out a lot of problems.
9. Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.
10. It was a blatant, deliberate handball. It should have resulted in a booking – it resulted in a goal. It wasn’t solely down to the referee but it was a big part of the game. We had played quite well and it was a turning point