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Word entry · 7 letters

dispute

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"Disagreement"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /dɪsˈpjuːt/Part of speech verb, nounSorted deipstuStarts with DEnds with E1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. have a disagreement over something

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • 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?
  • 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.
  • Addicted more / To contemplation and profound dispute.

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