0 past simple and past participle of debate --
1 to discuss a subject in a formal way: --
[ + question word ] We debated whether to take the earlier train.
[ + question word ] The authorities debated whether to build a new car park.
They had been debating for several hours without reaching a conclusion.
Screening for prostate cancer continues to be debated and the results of large randomized trials are awaited.
The mechanism of this improvement has been debated.
How idealistic their non-compromising position was continues to be debated among left-wing cadres to this day.
During the antebellum decades, just what sphere of activity the national government encompassed was debated amidst growing conflict-class, ethnic, partisan, and sectional.
Categorization is among the most hotly debated methods of data management.
This can be debated on at least two levels.
If these had been debated, passed and implemented - a very big ' if ' - the battles of the following four years might just have been obviated.
The first part deals with a number of issues debated in the capability literature in development economics and development ethics.
