arbitrate
verb (used with object)
to decide as arbitrator or arbiter; determine.
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
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One of the most delicate tasks that the magistracy have had set them of recent years has been arbitrating between tenant and man—between, in effect, capital and labour.
From Hodge and His Masters by Richard Jefferies