Dispute vs Rivalry - What's the difference?
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An argument or disagreement, a failure to agree.
Verbal controversy; contest by opposing argument or expression of opposing views or claims; controversial discussion; altercation; debate.
* Milton
Contest; struggle; quarrel.
To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another.
To make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss.
To oppose by argument or assertion; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call in question; to deny the truth or validity of.
* Bancroft
To strive or contend about; to contest.
* Prescott
(obsolete) To struggle against; to resist.
* Shakespeare
The relationship between two or more rivals who regularly compete with each other. The term usually applies to two rivals.
In economics, rivalry is a characteristic of a good. Rivalrous goods are those which can be consumed by only one person at the same time -- for example, a candy bar or a suit; a non-rivalrous good may be provided to more consumers at a very low marginal cost for each additional consumer.
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Dispute is a related term of rivalry.
As a verb dispute
is .As a noun rivalry is
the relationship between two or more rivals who regularly compete with each other the term usually applies to two rivals.dispute
English
(wikipedia dispute)Noun
(en noun)- Addicted more / To contemplation and profound dispute .
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Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
(disput)- Some residents disputed the proposal, saying it was based more on emotion than fact.
- to dispute assertions or arguments
- to seize goods under the disputed authority of writs of assistance
- to dispute the possession of the ground with the Spaniards
- Dispute it [grief] like a man.
Derived terms
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English
Noun
(rivalries)- The Boston Bruins have a longstanding rivalry with the Montreal Canadiens.