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an argument or disagreement in English:

1. row row


His beating four competitors in a row won our high school team the championship.
the fifth row
It's the same wherever you try and escape: everywhere is a death row, and everyone's a victim.
Everybody row in concert!
No matter how much you might think you like curry, three days in a row is plenty.
I was at a musical recently, in the third row. Seeing the actor I love up close like that made me feel more smitten with him than ever.
A row of old houses is being destroyed to make way for new flats.
This week I've watched foreign car-action movies with subtitles for three days in a row.
You shouldn't start unnecessary rows, especially because she's pregnant.
Ed Miliband accuses David Cameron of 'inexplicable silence' in row over Gaza
a violent row in Australia which disrupted filming of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.
a row of chairs/houses My students sit at desks in rows for most of the time.
Nelly and I had a big row. We haven't spoken since.
On the little prince's planet there has always been very simple flowers with a single row of petals which took up very little space and were no bother.
A row has broken out over education.

2. dispute dispute


A small border dispute ballooned into a major international incident.
a question in dispute
The Sea of Japan naming dispute revolves around efforts to remove 'Sea of Japan' from the world's maps and replace it with 'East Sea'.
The end of which there were two little sketches of rhetoric and logic, the latter finishing with a specimen of a dispute in the Socratic method.
After much negotiation, the two sides in the dispute reached a compromise.
Nothing is ever done here without dispute.
The number of days lost through industrial dispute is shown in the table on the facing page.
After a long dispute the coal mines closed and the remaining miners were paid off.
Problems can occur when there are disputes between partners.
My client strongly disputes Mr DeCarrico's version of events. He disputed the arrangements, which he thought were inadequate.
An employer and his/her employee shall aim at a conciliatory settlement of disputes arising from an employment relationship.
Definition if there is a dispute about something, people cannot agree about it and so they argue about it
I wouldn’t want to dispute the fact that Real Madrid are a good football club but there are better ones like Manchester United, you know!
"It appears to be a land dispute, Ensign," Thrawn said.
I don't dispute the facts you've presented but only the conclusion you draw from them.

English word "an argument or disagreement"(dispute) occurs in sets:

Advanced English words that start with "D"