What does «arbitrio» mean in Spanish?
- Faculty that has the will to choose, resolve or decide.
Examples of use in Spanish: "libre arbitrio".
"dejaré la decisión a su arbitrio... usted decide".
- Authority, power.
Examples of use in Spanish: "el asunto quedará sujeto al arbitrio de un tribunal superior".
- Injustice, especially that committed by a decision of authority; tyranny.
Examples of use in Spanish: "están todos sometidos al arbitrio y capricho del dictador gobernante".
- Personal decision that does not obey reason, equity or law, but whim or appetite.
Examples of use in Spanish: "el adolescente vive a su arbitrio, sin escuchar más que una ley: la de sus propios gustos".
- Extraordinary means or resource that is proposed for the attainment of some end.
Examples of use in Spanish: "dispusieron el arbitrio de nuevas medidas de seguridad".
- Judgment, award or sentence of the judge arbitrator. Especially, in the Ancien Régime in Spain, the one that was taken by the mere royal will. This is the origin of the concepts of arbitrismo and arbitrista.
- (arbitrios) Municipal taxes for public expenses; fee.
Examples of use in Spanish: "arbitrios sobre alquileres"; "arbitrios de alcantarillado"; "recaudación de arbitrios".
- (estar al arbitrio de...) To depend on something or someone.
Examples of use in Spanish: "se encontraba al arbitrio de las circunstancias".
- (a arbitrio de...) At the will of, at the mercy of.
- (arbitrio judicial) The power of judges to decide on cases not regulated by law, or which are obscure or insufficient in the law, according to their personal criteria. Also called administrative arbitration.
- (arbitrio de plusvalía) Municipal tax applied to the increase in value of urban land.