Dispute may refer to:
* an act of physical violence;
combat
Combat ( French for ''fight'') is a purposeful violent conflict meant to physically harm or kill the opposition. Combat may be armed (using weapons) or unarmed ( not using weapons). Combat is sometimes resorted to as a method of self-defense, or ...
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Controversy
Controversy is a state of prolonged public dispute or debate, usually concerning a matter of conflicting opinion or point of view. The word was coined from the Latin ''controversia'', as a composite of ''controversus'' – "turned in an opposite d ...
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Lawsuit
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A lawsuit is a proceeding by a party or parties against another in the civil court of law. The archaic term "suit in law" is found in only a small number of laws still in effect today. The term "lawsuit" is used in reference to a civil actio ...
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Dispute resolution
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Dispute (credit card) In a credit card or debit card account, a dispute is a situation in which a customer questions the validity of a transaction that was registered to the account.
Customers dispute charges for a variety of reasons, including unauthorized charges, e ...
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La Dispute :''This is for the Marivaux play, for the band, see La Dispute (band).''
''La Dispute'' is a prose comedy written by Pierre de Marivaux, shown for the first time on 19 October 1744 by the Théâtre-Italien in the Hôtel de Bourgogne. The story i ...
'', a 1744 prose comedy by Pierre de Marivaux
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La Dispute (band), an American post-hardcore band
* The
endless dispute
The (pan)arthropod head problem is a long-standing zoological dispute concerning the segmental composition of the heads of the various arthropod groups, and how they are evolutionarily related to each other. While the dispute has historically c ...
, a question of arthropod morphology
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