Usually means: Facing others in disagreement, conflict.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. confrontation: Merriam-Webster
  2. confrontation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. confrontation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. confrontation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. confrontation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Confrontation, confrontation: Wordnik
  7. confrontation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. confrontation: Wiktionary
  9. confrontation: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Confrontation, confrontation: Dictionary.com
  11. confrontation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Confrontation (Face to Face album), Confrontation (Rackham), Confrontation (Soilent Green album), Confrontation (TV series), Confrontation (disambiguation), Confrontation (journal), Confrontation (miniseries), Confrontation (video game), Confrontation, The Confrontation (film), The Confrontation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Confrontation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. confrontation: Rhymezone
  15. Confrontation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. confrontation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. confrontation: FreeDictionary.org
  18. confrontation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. confrontation: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. confrontation: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. confrontation: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. confrontation: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. confrontation: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. confrontation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Terms in the field of Psychiatry and Neurology (No longer online)
  4. confrontation: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)

(Note: See confrontational as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The act of confronting or challenging another, especially face to face.
noun:  A conflict between armed forces.

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