awarder

From award +‎ -er.

awarder (plural awarders)

1. One who awards, or assigns by sentence or judicial determination; a judge, arbitrator or umpire.

• Modern usage has tended to extend beyond solely judicial one.

• judge

• “awarder”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “awarder”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes I (A–C), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• dewarra, reaward