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officiates

  • present tense form
    of officiate (3rd person singular).
    officiate
    verb (used without object)
    to perform the office of a member of the clergy, as at a divine service.

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Meler, 37, is one of Turkey's top referees and officiates international games for Fifa.

From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2023

At one point, she officiates a wedding, asking the groom to promise to “take loving pictures” of his bride “while she’s not looking.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2022

A referee officiates, while judges among the crowd deliver their verdicts in cases when there is no obvious winner.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 4, 2021

Talk about having some serious street cred at the next hockey game he officiates.

From Golf Digest ● Aug. 6, 2019

He actually officiates as Vice-President of the Aulic Council of War, and as Privy-Counsellor of the Conferences.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by Karl Ludwig von P?llnitz