Synonyms for dispute
dɪˈspyutdis·pute

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1. dispute

   A feud is enmity between families, clans, or parties, with acts of hostility mutually retaliated and avenged; feud is rarely used of individuals, never of nations. While all the other words of the group may refer to that which is transient, a feud is long-enduring, and often hereditary. Dissension is used of a number of persons, of a party or other organization. Bitterness is in feeling only; enmity and hostility involve will and purpose to oppose or injure. A quarrel is in word or act, or both, and is commonly slight and transient, as we speak of childish quarrels; contention and strife may be in word or deed; contest ordinarily involves some form of action. Contest is often used in a good sense, contention and strife very rarely so. Controversy is commonly in words; strife extends from verbal controversy to the contests of armies. Affray, brawl, and broil, like quarrel, are words of inferior dignity. An affray or broil may arise at a street corner; the affray always involves physical force; the brawl or broil may be confined to violent language.

   Synonyms:
   affray, animosity, bitterness, brawl, broil, contention, contest, controversy, dissension, enmity, feud, fray, hostility, quarrel, strife

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1. dispute

   Synonyms:
   argue, question, canvass, contest, contend, challenge, debate, controvert, controversy, difference, gainsay, impugn, quarrel, altercation

   Antonyms:
   waive, concede, allow, forego

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1. dispute, difference, difference of opinion, conflictnoun

   a disagreement or argument about something important

   "he had a dispute with his wife"; "there were irreconcilable differences"; "the familiar conflict between Republicans and Democrats"

   Synonyms:
   divergence, struggle, battle, difference of opinion, conflict, fight, remainder, contravention, deviation, departure, engagement, difference

2. dispute, contraventionverb

   coming into conflict with

   Synonyms:
   difference of opinion, conflict, difference, contravention

3. challenge, dispute, gainsayverb

   take exception to

   "She challenged his claims"

   Synonyms:
   altercate, take exception, gainsay, challenge, quarrel, scrap, argufy

4. quarrel, dispute, scrap, argufy, altercateverb

   have a disagreement over something

   "We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America"; "These two fellows are always scrapping over something"

   Synonyms:
   altercate, junk, gainsay, challenge, trash, quarrel, scrap, argufy

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1. disputeverb

   Synonyms:
   debate, argue, contend in argument

2. disputeverb

   Synonyms:
   bicker, wrangle, quarrel, BRAWL, spar, spat, jangle, squabble, TIFF, fall out, have words, have an altercation

3. disputeverb

   Synonyms:
   debate, discuss, agitate, ventilate, argue, reason about

4. disputeverb

   Synonyms:
   controvert, impugn, call in question, oppose by argument

5. disputenoun

   Synonyms:
   debate, disputation, discussion, controversy, altercation, verbal contest, verbal quarrel, war of words

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1. disputenoun

   Synonyms:
   disputation, controversy, argument, debate, logomachy, squabble, contention, polemic

2. disputeverb

   Synonyms:
   contend, argue, gainsay, controvert, altercate, wrangle, impugn, bicker, squabble, spar

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1. List of paraphrases for "dispute":

   disputes, conflict, controversy, litigation, disagreement, quarrel, conflicts, argument, disputed, differences, difference, contention, strife, disputing, contentieux, wrangling

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1. Guy Debelle:

   The uncertainty as to how the dispute will play out on both the trade and technology fronts means businesses are waiting to see how the uncertainty resolves rather than invest, the longer businesses hold off, the weaker demand will be, which will further confirm the decision to wait. That runs the risk of a self-fulfilling downturn.

2. Abhishek Kumar:

   A persistent rise in U.S. oil output, together with lingering demand-side concerns emerging from the U.S.-China trade dispute, is limiting price gains.

3. Bobby Morton:

   Strike action will cause huge disruption and will generate massive shockwaves throughout the UK’s supply chain, but this dispute is entirely of the company’s own making, it [the company] has had every opportunity make our members a fair offer but has chosen not to do so.

4. President Trump:

   There can be no dispute that Syria used banned chemical weapons, violated its obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention and ignored the urging of the U.N. Security Council.

5. Mercer County:

   It absolutely could have been worse, given the confined space and the number of shots that appear to have been fired, the shooting appears to be related to several neighborhood gangs from here in the city of Trenton having a dispute at the venue.