0 present participle of dispute
1 to disagree with something that someone says:
Few would dispute his status as the finest artist of the period.
The circumstances of her death have been hotly disputed.
[ + (that) ] I don't dispute (that) his movies are entertaining, but they don't have much depth.
How can you be a Christian and dispute the divinity of Jesus?
Several experts now dispute the usual attribution of the work to Leonardo.
I don't dispute her ability, but what I question is her attitude.
Thus, litigants were tried exclusively by tribal judges chosen by the disputing parties themselves.
Regulations forbidding skilled workers from disputing the time estimated to complete a part suggest that the new wage form pitted workers against management.
If there are disputing lawyers, chances are that the application of the statute is not simple.
