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contention

/kənˈtɛnʃ(ə)n

noun

1 [mass noun] Heated disagreement: the captured territory was the main area of contention between the two countries...

Sea power's dominance, however, has been a point of contention among military historians.
Another area of much contention is the desired level of channel control sought by the manufacturer.
The basis for this contention among British doctors seems even more tenuous.

Synonyms

disagreement, dispute, disputation, argument, variance;

discord, hostility, conflict, friction, acrimony, enmity, strife, dissension, disharmony, quarrelling, feuding

2 [count noun] An assertion, especially one maintained in argument: Freud’s contention that all dreams were wish fulfilment...

I am not saying you do not have arguments against the contentions the applicant would wish to make.
But to this point, the administration has offered few direct answers to the particular contentions of the critics.
We say that if it is necessary, the second respondent in its argument has raised a contention.

Synonyms

argument, claim, plea, submission, allegation;

opinion, stand, position, view, belief, thesis, hypothesis, case, postulation;

declaration, assertion, affirmation, pronouncement, announcement, statement

Phrases

in (or out of) contention

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin contentio(n-), from contendere 'strive with' (see contend).

comes from Latin contendere ‘strive with’. Contender (mid 16th century) was originally a fighter rather than a competitor, a sense immortalized in I could have been a contender, spoken by Marlon Brando in the 1954 film On the Waterfront.

单词	contention
释义	contention /kənˈtɛnʃ(ə)n / noun 1 [mass noun] Heated disagreement: the captured territory was the main area of contention between the two countries... Sea power's dominance, however, has been a point of contention among military historians. Another area of much contention is the desired level of channel control sought by the manufacturer. The basis for this contention among British doctors seems even more tenuous. Synonyms disagreement, dispute, disputation, argument, variance; discord, hostility, conflict, friction, acrimony, enmity, strife, dissension, disharmony, quarrelling, feuding 2 [count noun] An assertion, especially one maintained in argument: Freud’s contention that all dreams were wish fulfilment... I am not saying you do not have arguments against the contentions the applicant would wish to make. But to this point, the administration has offered few direct answers to the particular contentions of the critics. We say that if it is necessary, the second respondent in its argument has raised a contention. Synonyms argument, claim, plea, submission, allegation; opinion, stand, position, view, belief, thesis, hypothesis, case, postulation; declaration, assertion, affirmation, pronouncement, announcement, statement Phrases in (or out of) contention Origin Late Middle English: from Latin contentio(n-), from contendere 'strive with' (see contend). comes from Latin contendere ‘strive with’. Contender (mid 16th century) was originally a fighter rather than a competitor, a sense immortalized in I could have been a contender, spoken by Marlon Brando in the 1954 film On the Waterfront. Rhymes abstention, apprehension, ascension, attention, circumvention, comprehension, condescension, contravention, convention, declension, detention, dimension, dissension, extension, gentian, hypertension, hypotension, intention, intervention, invention, mention, misapprehension, obtention, pension, prehension, prevention, recension, retention, subvention, supervention, suspension, tension
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