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): /dɪsˈpjuːt/, /ˈdɪs.pjuːt/
  • (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪs.pjut/, /dɪsˈpjut/

    • Audio (California):

      (file)

  • (General Australian) IPA^(key): /dɪsˈpjʉːt/, /ˈdɪs.pjʉːt/
• (verb)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪsˈpjuːt/
  • (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /dɪsˈpjut/
  • (General Australian) IPA^(key): /dɪsˈpjʉːt/
• Rhymes: -uːt

dispute (plural disputes)

1. An argument or disagreement; a failure to agree.

   Synonyms: debate, quarrel

   • 1919, Ellwood Hendrick, Percolator Papers, page 67:

     But is not this dispute over the question whether we have free will or not very like a dispute that we might engage in over the color of a tree — whether it be green or blue?

   1. (law) A disagreement between parties in a contract, lawsuit, treaty, or other legal matter.

      Synonyms: conflict, controversy

      Near-synonyms: claim, question

      • 1927, Ben Morris Selekman, “Synopsis”, in Postponing Strikes: A Study of the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act of Canada, page 28:

        Canadian experience throws light on the relative merits of a separate board for each dispute as compared with a permanent board to hear all disputes.

      • 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[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 4:

     Addicted more / To contemplation and profound dispute.

• See also Thesaurus:dispute

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, volume (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
   • 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, [Act IV, scene iii]:

     Dispute it [grief] like a man.

• “dispute”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “dispute”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

From Latin disputāre.

• IPA^(key): /dis.pyt/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

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): /ˈdis.pu.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