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Answer for the clue "Ongoing dispute ", 4 letters:
feud

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Word definitions for feud in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a bitter quarrel between two parties v. carry out a feud; "The two professors have been feuding for years"

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Feud \Feud\ (f[=u]d), n. [OE. feide, AS. f[=ae]h[eth], fr. f[=a]h hostile; akin to OHG. f[=e]hida, G. fehde, Sw. fejd, D. feide; prob. akin to E. fiend. See Foe.] A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, ...

Usage examples of feud.

Charles was just trying to say that most people around here knew about the feud between Aden and his family.

Aberwyn, Your Grace, and he killed Lord Adry in that feud, some years past.

Christian turning gradually into the ill-tempered agnostic, entangled in the end of a feud of which he never understood the beginning, blighted with a sort of hereditary boredom with he knows not what, and already weary of hearing what he has never heard.

Here, Bowler explained, was the Neutral, where goods were bartered, defense alliances forged, conspiracies birthed, feuds resolved, curiosity sated, and contracts for joint expeditions made.

The cause of the feud was that Chack fed squirrels and Leeds fed pigeons, both using Washington Square as a base of operations.

Capri grass, with the pink cistus flowers brushing her hot cheeks, Lorna raged impotently against the tragedy of a fate which was changing the dearest friendship of her life into a feud.

There had been a running feud between the Doppers and the Hawbakers for three generations.

And it may be added that this mathematical introduction precedes an account of the fate of a Kentucky feud that was imported to the city that has a habit of making its importations conform to its angles.

Such feuds had once been widespread on Oaccanv, ultimately precipitating the Second Eldership War.

The hawks, and the gleads, and the ravens, and the carrion-crows, and the hooded-crows, and the rooks, and the magpies, and all the rest of the rural militia, forgetting their own feuds, sometimes came sallying from all quarters, with even a few facetious jackdaws from the old castle, to show fight with the monarch of the air.

Presumably Gorde and Otto would be leaving with Erkhard and I wanted to be on that plane, away from the dark feuds of this desert world.

He had failed to learn anything of the purported feud between Gnol and Kuru Qan.

Crick, under the influence of her ninth cup of tea and her fourth hymn, ventured on the hope that it might continue fine, but a maladroit allusion on the part of the Saunders good man to the backwardness of garden crops brought the Feud stalking forth from its corner with all its old bitterness.

Korber was correctly identified as the man who had been in the wrecked cab outside the Club Miche, but the evidence indicated that the taxi had been accidentally boxed by other cars that contained feuding gangsters.

He was dead to his people, the name Miche surrendered for the next baby to be born, as he had gotten it from his grandfather Miche when he had fallen in the feuds with the sea people.