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{
"term": "dispute",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "an argument between two people, groups or countries; discussion about a subject on which people disagree",
"sensetop": "dispute between A and Bdispute over/about somethingin dispute with somebody/somethingin/under disputebeyond disputeopen to dispute",
"examples": [
{
"text": "**industrial/pay disputes**"
},
{
"text": "a dispute between the two countries about the border",
"contextForm": "dispute between A and B"
},
{
"text": "the latest dispute over fishing rights",
"contextForm": "dispute over/about something"
},
{
"text": "The union is in dispute with management over working hours.",
"contextForm": "in dispute with somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "The cause of the accident was still in dispute *(= being argued about)*.",
"contextForm": "in/under dispute"
},
{
"text": "These are not the issues under dispute."
},
{
"text": "The matter was settled beyond dispute by the court judgment *(= it could no longer be argued about)*.",
"contextForm": "beyond dispute"
},
{
"text": "His theories are open to dispute *(= can be disagreed with)*.",
"contextForm": "open to dispute"
},
{
"text": "He proposed a negotiated settlement of the outstanding disputes between the two countries."
},
{
"text": "The incident sparked off a major dispute between the two countries."
},
{
"text": "The purpose of industrial tribunals is to adjudicate disputes between employers and employees."
},
{
"text": "There were lengthy internal disputes between the two wings of the party."
},
{
"text": "a jurisdictional dispute between the Army and the CIA"
},
{
"text": "a long-standing dispute between the families over ownership of the land."
},
{
"text": "to minimize the scope for dispute over the meaning of the terms employed"
},
{
"text": "There is considerable dispute over the precise definition of ‘social class’ as a term."
},
{
"text": "The actual sum of compensation due is still in dispute."
},
{
"text": "The employees have been in dispute with management for three weeks."
},
{
"text": "They became embroiled in a dispute with their competitors."
},
{
"text": "No one could remember exactly how the dispute had arisen."
},
{
"text": "Police have difficulties in dealing with domestic disputes."
},
{
"text": "The exact relationship between the two languages is a matter of dispute among scholars."
},
{
"text": "The simmering dispute erupted in public when the two men came to blows at the party conference."
},
{
"text": "There is no dispute as to the facts."
},
{
"text": "disputes concerning environmental protection"
},
{
"text": "one of the many factors that led to the dispute"
},
{
"text": "His job is to settle pay disputes."
}
],
"topics": ["Opinion and argument"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["considerable", "major", "serious"],
"verb + dispute": ["cause", "lead to", "provoke"],
"dispute + verb": ["arise", "begin", "erupt"],
"preposition": ["beyond dispute", "in dispute (with)", "under dispute"],
"phrases": [
"a matter, point, subject, etc. of dispute",
"the resolution of a dispute",
"the settlement of a dispute"
]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈspjuːt//ˈdɪspjuːt/",
"audio": "di/dispute/dispute__gb_3.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈspjuːt//ˈdɪspjuːt/",
"audio": "di/dispute/dispute__us_3.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English: via Old French from Latin disputare ‘to estimate’ (in late Latin ‘to dispute’), from dis- ‘apart’ + putare ‘reckon’."
}