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dispute

See also: Dispute and disputé

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Etymology

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From Middle English disputen, from Old French desputer (French disputer), from Latin disputāre (“to dispute, discuss, examine, compute, estimate”), from dis- (“apart”) + putāre (“to reckon, consider, think, originally make clean, clear up”), related to purus (“pure”). Compare compute, count, impute, repute, amputate, etc.

Pronunciation

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  • (noun)
    • (UK) IPA(key): /dɪsˈpjuːt/, /ˈdɪs.pjuːt/
    • (US) IPA(key): /ˈdɪs.pjuːt/, /dɪsˈpjuːt/
    • Audio (General American):(file)
  • (verb)
  • Rhymes: -uːt

Noun

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dispute (plural disputes)

  1. An argument or disagreement, a failure to agree.
    • 1964 June, “Motive Power Miscellany: BR Workshops”, in Modern Railways, page 432:
      A "who-does-what" labour dispute at Swindon works during April led to a stoppage of work on the construction of the new 0-6-0 Type 1 diesel-hydraulic locomotives of the D9500 series and work had not been resumed as we closed for press.
  2. (uncountable) Verbal controversy or disagreement; altercation; debate.

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Verb

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dispute (third-person singular simple present disputes, present participle disputing, simple past and past participle disputed)

  1. (intransitive) to contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another.
    • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
      "Now, though thy thoughts are green and tender, as becometh one so young, yet are they those of a thinking brain, and in truth thou dost bring back to my mind certain of those old philosophers with whom in days bygone I have disputed at Athens, and at Becca in Arabia, for thou hast the same crabbed air and dusty look, as though thou hadst passed thy days in reading ill-writ Greek, and been stained dark with the grime of manuscripts."
  2. (transitive) to make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss
    Some residents disputed the proposal, saying it was based more on emotion than fact.
  3. to oppose by argument or assertion; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call in question; to deny the truth or validity of
    to dispute assertions or arguments
    • 1834–1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume (please specify |volume=I to X), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company [et al.], →OCLC:
      to seize goods under the disputed authority of writs of assistance
  4. to strive or contend about; to contest
    • 1855–1858, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, →OCLC:
      to dispute the possession of the ground with the Spaniards
  5. (obsolete) to struggle against; to resist

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Further reading

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French

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Etymology

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From Latin disputāre.

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Noun

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dispute f (plural disputes)

  1. dispute
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Descendants

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  • → Romanian: dispută

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Anagrams

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Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈdi.spu.te/
  • Rhymes: -ispute
  • Hyphenation: dì‧spu‧te

Noun

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dispute f

  1. plural of disputa

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Verb

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dispute

  1. inflection of disputar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Romanian

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Noun

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dispute f

  1. inflection of dispută:
    1. indefinite plural
    2. indefinite genitive/dative singular

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /disˈpute/ [d̪isˈpu.t̪e]
  • Rhymes: -ute
  • Syllabification: dis‧pu‧te

Verb

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dispute

  1. inflection of disputar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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