Usually means: Disagreement or dispute among parties.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. contention: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. contention: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. contention: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. contention: Collins English Dictionary
  5. contention: Vocabulary.com
  6. Contention, contention: Wordnik
  7. contention: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. contention: Wiktionary
  9. contention: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. contention: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. contention: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Contention, contention: Dictionary.com
  13. contention: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. contention: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Contention (disambiguation), Contention (telecommunications), Contention: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Contention: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. contention: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. contention: Rhymezone
  19. Contention: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. contention: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. contention: Free Dictionary
  22. contention: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. contention: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. contention: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Contention: Linktionary Networking Glossary
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  3. contention: Encyclopedia

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  1. contention: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Argument, contest, debate, strife, struggle.
noun:  A point maintained in an argument, or a line of argument taken in its support; the subject matter of discussion of strife; a position taken or contended for.
noun:  (computing, telecommunications) Competition by parts of a system or its users for a limited resource.

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