dispute
to engage in argument or debate: She liked nothing more than to dispute with her fellow law students.
to argue vehemently; wrangle or quarrel: Those two are always disputing about something or other.
to argue or debate about; discuss: Whether excessive time spent on the internet can be called an addiction is hotly disputed.
to argue against; call into question: Historians dispute this claim, suggesting Raleigh could not possibly have discovered the potato in the places he visited.
to quarrel or fight about; contest: We stopped to watch a puffed-up crow disputing territory with a cat.
Archaic. to strive against; oppose: to dispute an advance of troops.
a debate, controversy, or difference of opinion: Players were elated when the equal pay dispute was finally resolved.
a wrangling argument; quarrel: Some women at the end of the bar were having a noisy dispute about who should be the designated driver.
Idioms about dispute
in dispute,
being fought or argued over; debated or contested; unresolved: The authorship of the recently discovered text is in dispute.Both countries argue that the territories in dispute originally belonged to them.
engaged in an argument or disagreement: The program enables parties in dispute to settle their differences over the internet without face-to-face mediation.
Origin of dispute
1synonym study For dispute
Other words for dispute
Other words from dispute
- dis·pute·less, adjective
- dis·put·er, noun
- pre·dis·pute, noun, verb, pre·dis·put·ed, pre·dis·put·ing.
- re·dis·pute, verb, re·dis·put·ed, re·dis·put·ing.
- un·dis·put·ing, adjective
Words that may be confused with dispute
- dispute , refute
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How to use dispute in a sentence
A multipolar world with clashing economic systems is producing more trade disputes, tariffs, and uncertainty.
Four people were shot at a lounge bar because of a dispute between two groups of people.
“We knew we would be under a microscope from day one,” said Peter Antonacci, the election supervisor in Florida’s Broward County, where disputes over signatures on mail ballots in 2018 led to recounts and a slew of lawsuits.
‘We will not allow anyone to stop us’: Day and night, under historic scrutiny, the nation’s vote counters carried on | Amy Gardner, Reis Thebault, Hannah Knowles, Michelle Lee | November 9, 2020 | Washington PostA woman in a third vehicle, who was unaffiliated with either of the vehicles involved in the dispute, was struck by a bullet, he said.
Bystander caught in crossfire and wounded in Baileys Crossroads early Sunday | Meagan Flynn | November 8, 2020 | Washington PostRepublicans still challenged results in 11 states and kept the dispute going for months, but the only result was Nixon losing Hawaii to Kennedy.
Follow along as battleground states tally presidential votes | John Kennedy | November 5, 2020 | Popular-Science
There is no disputing that sometimes life takes a dramatic change.
There was still no disputing the answer Bloomberg furnished to the question he then posed.
Alphonza Bryant, the Slain Bronx Teen Who Did Everything Right | Michael Daly | May 2, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThey view the tax people as disputing whether what they're doing is real work.
Had the gifts to Edwards bought yard signs or radio advertising, there'd be no disputing their campaign purpose.
Andrew Sullivan posted a letter today from a reader disputing the oft-heard statistic of 20 million Rush Limbaugh listeners.
It would be like opening the windows upon a stuffy, overcrowded and unventilated room of disputing people.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation | H. G. (Herbert George) WellsHe sets out, and on his journey finds a lion, a wolf, and a falcon disputing over the carcase of a horse.
The Three Days' Tournament | Jessie L. WestonIt tried to follow him beyond the grave, disputing his right to make a will and denying him burial in consecrated ground.
Gospel Philosophy | J. H. WardConsidering the uncertainty in which we are left by both text and commentary, the best we can do is to adore without disputing.
A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 1 (of 10) | Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)If without witness and bonds he has given on deposit, and where he has deposited they keep disputing him, this case has no remedy.
The Oldest Code of Laws in the World | Hammurabi, King of Babylon
British Dictionary definitions for dispute
to argue, debate, or quarrel about (something)
(tr; may take a clause as object) to doubt the validity, etc, of
(tr) to seek to win; contest for
(tr) to struggle against; resist
an argument or quarrel
Origin of dispute
1Derived forms of dispute
- disputer, noun
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Other Idioms and Phrases with dispute
see in dispute.
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