dispute

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.

• (noun)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪs.pjuːt/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /dɪsˈpjuːt/

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• (verb)
  • IPA^(key): /dɪsˈpjuːt/
• Rhymes: -uːt

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.
   • 1671, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398, page 4:

     Addicted more / To contemplation and profound dispute.

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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 1167497017:

     "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.

     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, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, OCLC 645131689:

     to dispute the possession of the ground with the Spaniards

5. (obsolete) to struggle against; to resist
   • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene iii]:

     Dispute it [grief] like a man.

• industrial dispute

• dispute in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• dispute in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

From Latin disputāre.

• IPA^(key): /dis.pyt/

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dispute f (plural disputes)

1. dispute

• disputer

• → Romanian: dispută

• “dispute”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• stupide

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

dispute f

1. plural of disputa

• stupide

dispute

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

• IPA^(key): [diˈspute]

dispute f

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

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

dispute

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