Usually means: Disputes or disagreements over issues.
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  1. contentions: Merriam-Webster
  2. contentions: Collins English Dictionary
  3. contentions: Vocabulary.com
  4. Contentions, contentions: Wordnik
  5. contentions: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. contentions: Wiktionary
  7. contentions: Dictionary.com
  8. contentions: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. contentions: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. contentions: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. contentions: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (contention)

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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