Usually means: Structured exchange of opposing views.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. debates: Merriam-Webster
  2. debates: Collins English Dictionary
  3. debates: Vocabulary.com
  4. Debate's, Debates, debate's, debates: Wordnik
  5. debates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. debates: Wiktionary
  7. debates: Dictionary.com
  8. debates: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. debates: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. debates: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. debates: Encyclopedia

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  1. debates: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (debate)

noun:  An argument, or discussion, usually in an ordered or formal setting, often with more than two people, generally ending with a vote or other decision.
noun:  An informal and spirited but generally civil discussion of opposing views.
noun:  (uncountable) Discussion of opposing views.
noun:  (frequently in the French form débat) A type of literary composition, taking the form of a discussion or disputation, commonly found in the vernacular medieval poetry of many European countries, as well as in medieval Latin.
noun:  (obsolete) Strife, discord.
verb:  (ambitransitive, reciprocal) To participate in a debate; to dispute, argue, especially in a public arena.
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive, reciprocal) To fight.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To engage in combat for; to strive for.
verb:  (transitive) To consider (to oneself), to think over, to attempt to decide
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