contentions
- 1Plural of contention.
The defense rejected each of the prosecutor's contentions in turn.
Her contentions about the budget sparked a long argument at the meeting.
Note
A plural that points two ways, because contention itself does. It can count claims, the positions a party maintains in an argument, as when a defense answers a prosecutor's contentions one by one. It can also count separate quarrels or struggles. When contention means strife in general, it is a mass noun and has no plural. In computing, contentions are competing demands on one limited resource.
contentions is a form of contention
contention, noun: Heated disagreement, dispute, or struggle between people or groups holding opposing positions. Full entry
- Forms
- contentioncontentions plural
- Spelling
- contention → contentions: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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