The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word ARGUMENTS
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result ARGUMENTS
- What must make these worse? Anger must
- Reasons doctors aren’t smug
- Disputes with watcher about people taking time
- Disputations in AGM, unrest getting nasty)
- Exchanges knitted garment with us
- Fights ain’t about glue sniffing, initially
- Must anger result when these are involved?
- . Must anger set right altercations?
- . Fights with endless expertise and courage to protect workers
- Quarrels, somehow augments source of revenue
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The straight part
We know that "Disputations" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case disputations = arguments.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does ARGUMENTS mean?
ARGUMENTS noun- A fact or statement used to support a proposition; a reason.
- A verbal dispute; a quarrel.
- A process of reasoning.
- A series of propositions organized so that the final proposition is a conclusion which is intended to follow logically from the preceding propositions, which function as premises.
- The independent variable of a function.
- The phase of a complex number.
- A value, or reference to a value, passed to a function.
- A parameter at a function call; an actual parameter, as opposed to a formal parameter.
- Any of the phrases that bears a syntactic connection to the verb of a clause.
- The quantity on which another quantity in a table depends.
- The subject matter of a discourse, writing, or artistic representation; theme or topic; also, an abstract or summary, as of the contents of a book, chapter, poem.
- Matter for question; business in hand.
- (NNES) To put forward as an argument; to argue.