dispute
pronunciation
How to pronounce dispute in British English:
UK [dɪˈspjuːt]
How to pronounce dispute in American English:
US [dɪˈspjuːt]
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- Noun:
- a disagreement or argument about something important
- coming into conflict with
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- Verb:
- take exception to
- have a disagreement over something
Word Origin
- dispute
- dispute: [13] Dispute comes via Old French disputer from Latin disputāre, a compound verb formed from the prefix dis- ‘separately’ and putāre ‘consider, reckon, think’ (source of a wide range of English words, from computer to reputation). It was originally a commercial term, denoting the calculation of a sum by considering each of its items separately, but its meaning eventually broadened out to ‘estimate, examine, weigh up’ – either mentally or (the sense which prevailed) by discussion with others.The neutral sense ‘discuss’ held centre stage in classical Latin, but later (in the Vulgate, for instance) a note of acrimony appeared, signalling the beginnings of dispute’s current sense ‘argue’.=> computer, count, putative, reputation
- dispute (v.)
- c. 1300, from Old French desputer (12c.) "dispute, fight over, contend for, discuss," from Latin disputare "weigh, examine, discuss, argue, explain," from dis- "separately" (see dis-) + putare "to count, consider," originally "to prune" (see pave). Used in Vulgate in sense of "to argue, contend with words." Related: Disputable; disputed; disputing. The noun is not certainly recorded before 1590s (disputacioun in that sense is from late 14c.).
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Example
- 1. He referred the dispute to the board of directors .
- 2. The dispute puts further pressure on the thai prime minister .
- 3. I began with what was not in dispute .
- 4. Better to make the bilateral dispute multilateral .
- 5. They had a drastic dispute over the draft .