domestic dispute

collocation in English

meaningsofdomesticanddispute

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domestic
adjective
uk
/dəˈmes.tɪk/us
/dəˈmes.tɪk/
relating to a person's ...
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dispute
noun[C or U]
uk
/dɪˈspjuːt/us
/dɪˈspjuːt/
an argument or disagreement, especially an official one between, for example, workers and employers or two countries with a ...
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(Definition ofdomesticanddisputefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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A police officer is called to go to a home to deal with adomesticdispute.
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The subject is not one of normaldomesticdisputebetween man and wife.
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I really do not very much want to go into the question of what is adomesticdispute.
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These are most frequently threats of a racial character or are the result of adomesticdispute.
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I suspect that if an officer was called to adomesticdispute, he would have time to inform the local constabulary.
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It is not my place to get involved here and now in thisdomesticdispute.
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I need not catalogue the circumstances of thisdomesticdispute, nor indeed the history of oil developments on the worldwide scene.
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They support the frontline uniform response officers who are required to take decisive action at the scene of adomesticdispute.
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The public indifference to this problem is remarkable—perhaps because domestic brutality is often confused with normaldomesticdispute.
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Inevitably, many women assume that nothing can be done because the phrase "domesticdispute" is parroted as an incantation for inaction.
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It is undoubtedly the case that technology can give reassurance to both sides in adomesticdispute.
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If the teachers really want me to regard them as a profession they must settle this kind ofdomesticdisputethemselves.
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Whether it was a momentarydomesticdispute, a trifling dispute or a fundamental one, there was no representation; there was no sense of security and no contentment in the village.
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The offense was committed against his wife in adomesticdispute.
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Lyrically, the song describes adomesticdisputein which its narrator assumes a defensive stance against a manipulative ex-lover.
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His actions led to several teenage arrests and jail time in 1973, and a 1996 trespassing charge during adomesticdispute.
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They were reportedly having adomesticdisputeat the time.
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The video starts off with a romantic dinner that triggers an explosivedomesticdispute.
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Kaiapoepoe, himself had left the home two days before over adomesticdispute.
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The incident was considered as adomesticdispute, and even though the school was locked down for most of the day, students were never in harms way.
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