CONTENTION

[kən`tenʃ(ə)n]

спор, раздор, разногласие; диспут; дебаты, полемика; борьба, противостояние; разборка; ссора

конкуренция, соперничество, соревнование, состязание

предмет спора; суть разногласий; отстаиваемая точка зрения

contention: translation

1 opinion that sb expresses

▪ main

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Her main contention is that staff should get better training.

▪ support

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There is no evidence to support her contention.

▪ dispute, reject

2 disagreement/competition between people

▪ play-off, title (both AmE)

▪

The Comets were eliminated from play-off contention.

▪ contention between

▪

There is no contention between the two groups.

▪ an area of contention, a bone of contention, a point of contention, a source of contention

▪

Where to spend Christmas is always a bone of contention in our family.

▪ in contention (for sth)

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There were three left in serious contention for the prize.

▪ out of contention (for sth)

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The Jaguars are now out of contention.

contention: translation

Discordia, Eris, altercation, antagonism, anteposition, antipathy, antithesis, apologetics, apologia, apology, argument, argumentation, argumentative, bellicose, belligerence, belligerent, bicker, bickering, blood feud, brawl, broil, bucking, captious, carping, casuistry, caviling, challenge, clash, clashing, collision, combative, conflict, confrontation, confrontment, contentious, contestation, contradiction, contraposition, contrariety, contrary, contrast, contravention, contraversion, controversial, controversy, counteraction, counterworking, crosscurrent, crossing, defense, denial, despitefulness, difference, disaccord, disaffinity, discord, discordance, discordancy, disharmony, disputation, disputatious, dispute, dissension, dissent, dissidence, disunity, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, embroilment, enmity, faultfinding, feud, fiery, fight, fliting, flyting, fracas, friction, froward, fuss, hassle, hasty, hate, hatred, head wind, hostility, hotheaded, hubbub, hurrah, imbroglio, impetuous, impugnation, impugnment, incompatibility, incompatibleness, inharmoniousness, inharmony, jangle, jar, litigation, litigious, logomachy, malevolence, malice, malignity, militant, mischief, negation, noncooperation, open conflict, open quarrel, opposing, opposition, opposure, oppugnation, paper war, passage of arms, peppery, perverse, polar opposition, polarity, polarization, polemic, polemical, polemics, posing against, pugnacious, quarrel, quarrelsome, quarrelsomeness, rebutment, rebuttal, refusal, rejection, repugnance, resistance, rhubarb, rub, rumpus, scrappy, set-to, sharp words, slanging match, snarl, spat, spite, spitefulness, squabble, standing against, strained relations, strife, tension, tiff, traversal, truculent, tussle, undercurrent, unharmoniousness, unpleasantness, variance, vendetta, verbal engagement, war of words, warlike, words, wrangle, wrangling

1. раздор, разногласие; спор; препирательство

2. точка зрения, утверждение (в споре)

3. соревнование, состязание

contention [kənˊtenʃn] n

1) борьба́, спор, ссо́ра; раздо́р

2) соревнова́ние

3) предме́т спо́ра, ссо́ры

4) утвержде́ние, заявле́ние

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bone of contention я́блоко раздо́ра

1) разногласие, расхождение во мнениях; спор; раздор

2) заявление, утверждение; точка зрения (в споре)

contention: übersetzung

1. Behauptung f, Vortrag m;

2. Streit m, Kontroverse f

1) напряжение, усилие

2) уст. спор, ссора

contention: übersetzung

f; MED

1) утверждение

2) спор

3) предмет спора

contention: translation

contention: translation