- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- to argue, debate, or quarrel about (something)
- to doubt the validity, etc, of
- to seek to win; contest for
- to struggle against; resist
- an argument or quarrel
