how to pronounce umpire

/ˈʌm.paɪəɹ/

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umpire is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of umpire in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… example he insisted that the umpire roll …”

meaning of umpire

An umpire is a person who supervises a game or contest.

umpire frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word umpire occurs in english on average 3 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics umpire can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that umpire can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;