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interdispute

interdispute adjective: occurring during peaceful times between disputes.

Adjective

interdispute (comparative more interdispute, superlative most interdispute)

  1. Occurring during peaceful times between disputes.
    • Rivalries began with the first dispute and continued as long as there were disputes, assuming that the interdispute waiting time was not too long.2000, Manus I. Midlarsky, Handbook of War Studies II - Volume 2, →ISBN, page 232
    • Instead of using the interdispute period as part of the dependent variable, it appears as the independent variable in the "frustration-aggression" deterrence hypothesis: can early deterrence success lead to failure in later crises?2001, Paul F. Diehl, Gary Goertz, War and Peace in International Rivalry, →ISBN, page 100

Noun

interdispute (plural interdisputes)

  1. A dispute between multiple groups or rival factions.
    • If I may, prior to your conversation with Mr. Faine and Mr. Fox, I would like to point out — and I think it is important — that during this interdispute that they had between the three labor unions, I was sort of caught in the middle.1948, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor, Investigation of Associated Actors and Artists of America and Affiliated Union, page 132
    • But alas, the bright civilization of the East produced by several millennia vanished amid the medieval age into which Europe as a whole was plunged. This, chiefly because of its interdisputes and then because of the barbarian onslaughts on their countries.1987, Salīm Wākīm, Iran, the Arabs, and the West: the story of twenty-five centuries

Forms of interdispute

Adjective
comparativemore interdispute
superlativemost interdispute
Noun
pluralinterdisputes

Origin of interdispute

From inter- + dispute.

Questions about interdispute

What does interdispute mean?
Interdispute means occurring during peaceful times between disputes.
What part of speech is interdispute?
Interdispute can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near interdispute in the dictionary

  1. interdiscursivities
  2. interdiscursivity
  3. interdisk
  4. interdiskal
  5. interdispersed
  6. interdispute
  7. interdisputes
  8. interdissepimental
  9. interdistal
  10. interdistance
  11. interdistances

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