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dispute
[ dih-spyoot ]
/ dɪˈspyut /
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verb (used without object), dis·put·ed, dis·put·ing.
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.
verb (used with object), dis·put·ed, dis·put·ing.
noun
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.
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Idioms about 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.
in dispute,
Origin of dispute
synonym study for dispute
8. See argument.
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WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH dispute
dispute , refuteWords nearby dispute
Dispur, disputable, disputant, disputation, disputatious, dispute, disputed, disqualification, disqualify, disquantity, disquiet
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How to use dispute in a sentence
British Dictionary definitions for dispute
dispute
verb (dɪˈspjuːt)
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
noun (dɪˈspjuːt, ˈdɪspjuːt)
an argument or quarrel
Derived forms of dispute
disputer, nounWord Origin for dispute
C13: from Late Latin disputāre to contend verbally, from Latin: to discuss, from dis- 1 + putāre to think
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Other Idioms and Phrases with dispute
dispute
see in dispute.
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