trade dispute
dispute
verb[ T ]
uk /dɪˈspjuːt/us
to disagree with or express doubts about something:
Health insurers dispute the doctors' statement that they don't pay enough to make up for the cost of the vaccine.
Many in the television industry dispute research findings suggesting negative long-term effects of television violence.

Examples of dispute

dispute
What sort of disputes did ordinary people bring to court?
The dispute thus centred on the value of visual evidence from different observers during the famine and in the past.
Uncertainty, linguistic or otherwise, may lead to legal disputes.
They also disputed whether an identity specific to the province really exists.
Here, we think, the dispute really is just about words.
It was also more centrally directed and so labour disputes easily became politicized.
Already, however, we find some authors ready to dispute the use of the term "model" for one or other of these examples.
If so, disputes over end-of-life treatments could be resolved without requiring hospitals to go to court.
The more interdependent the less economically dependent state, the more constrained it will be from engaging in a dispute and the more peaceful the dyad.
This could easily be disputed by a consequentionalist egalitarian (economist).
Beyond this, such institutional features contributed to disputes among church members, thereby hampering the overall efficacy of the organisations.
Dubious weighing procedures set off countless disputes between planters and mill owners.
Eventually, this has created an apparent incongruity between the water dispute resolution mechanism and its operational environment, thereby adversely affecting the efficiency of the former.
When disputes arose about which category a citation should be allocated to, or its relevance to the report, we attempted to resolve them by discussion.
Thus, encouraging inter-agency and public involvement meant that, when points of contention arose later in the process, participants had little leverage for dispute.
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Collocations withdispute

dispute

These are words often used in combination with dispute.

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acrimonious dispute
None the less, a great deal of acrimonious dispute, at local borough level, could be avoided if we actually found out what we can measure.
alternative dispute resolution
Moreover, bureaucrats have struggled to preserve their powers in the context of regulatory reform by assuming new administrative functions involving alternativedispute resolution.
bitter dispute
An awkward and bitterdispute was avoided because of the imposition of schedule 11.
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