All 3 Uses of
dispute
in
The Fountainhead
- Two of the owners had been cleaned out in the stock market; a third got his funds attached by a lawsuit over an inheritance disputed by someone; a fourth embezzled somebody else's shares.†
Chpt 2.11disputed = challenged, argued about, or fought over
- He had wanted superiority—and for the last year he had been the undisputed leader of his profession.†
Chpt 3.2 *undisputed = not challenged, argued about, or fought overstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undisputed means not and reverses the meaning of disputed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- If a story concerned a dispute between employer and employee, the employer was made to appear guilty, simply through wording, no matter what the facts presented.†
Chpt 4.9 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(dispute as in: their border dispute) disagreement, argument, or conflict
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(2)
(dispute as in: She disputes his claim.) challenge, argue about, or fight over