| 词汇 | contestable |
| 释义 | contestable adjective uk /kənˈtes.tə.bəl/ us /kənˈtes.t̬ə.bəl/ A contestable statement, claim, legal decision, etc. is one that is possible to argue about or try to have changed because it may be wrong: 可争论的;可质疑的 What really happened was, and remains to this day, obscure and contestable.真实情况在过去模糊不清、充满争议，到现在仍然如此。 business, finance & economics specialized A contestable market is one that it is fairly easy for new companies to enter.（新公司比较容易进入的）可竞争的（市场） Arguments & disagreements argument argy-bargy be (on) non-speakersidiom belligerence bickering blow (someone/something) up bust up clash conflict contentiousness contretemps ding-dong dispute dust-up hostility kerfuffle logjam misunderstanding rhubarb spat You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Business - general words Economics Examples of contestablecontestable The expected actual loss of patients is most commonly assessed using the concept of 'contestable zip codes'. Judgments concerning the appropriateness of sanctions for wrongdoing are highly contestable. Our positions in the philosophy of language are as contestable as are our claims in the philosophy of law. Robins shares this perspective, although it is quite contestable. Judgments could draw on historical analogies, simulations based on data from the past and/or theoretical deductions, each of which is necessarily contestable. However, other methods of accounting for natural resource stock depreciation are contestable as well and/or are extremely data-intensive. However, it has so far been assumed that traditional medical duties or responsibilities apply to medically trained interrogators, and this assumption is contestable. In the ' unknown seller ' example there is a plausible but contestable reason for the defendant's possession of goods. His explicitly functionalist argumentation is contestable, as is the primacy he gives to industrialization in explaining the genesis and maintenance of nationalism. The problem here is that this ties the seemingly generic concept of "unjustified harm" to a fairly specific (and contestable) part of the moral landscape. The more limited the public that bestows it, of course, the more contestable the authority. Where fees are back-loaded, the industry is less contestable. A greater reliance on up-front fees, which allow for earlier payback to pension companies, would make the industry more contestable. They remain contingent and contestable. The argument is concise and comparatively easy to grasp, and it avoids employing some of the difficult primitive terms and contestable premises of those earlier efforts. See all examples of contestable These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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