dispute
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From Middle English disputen < Old French desputer (French disputer) < Latin disputare (“‘to dispute, discuss, examine, compute, estimate’”) < dis- (“‘apart’”) + putare (“‘to reckon, consider, think, orig. make clean, clear up’”), related to purus (“‘pure’”). Cf. compute, count, impute, repute, amputate, etc.
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dispute (plural disputes)
- An argument or disagreement, a failure to agree.
- Verbal controversy; contest by opposing argument or expression of opposing views or claims; controversial discussion; altercation; debate.
- Contest; struggle; quarrel.
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failure to agree
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to dispute (third-person singular simple present disputes, present participle disputing, simple past and past participle disputed)
- To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another; to discuss; to reason; to debate; to altercate; to wrangle.
- To make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss.
- To oppose by argument or assertion; to attempt to overthrow; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call in question; to deny the truth or validity of; as, to dispute assertions or arguments.
- To strive or contend about; to contest.
- To struggle against; to resist.
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- dispute in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- dispute in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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dispute f. (plural disputes)
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dispute f.
- Plural form of disputa.
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dispute (infinitive: disputar)
- formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of disputar.
- first-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of disputar.
- formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of disputar.
- third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of disputar.
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