Definition of "arguing" []

• Present participle of argue. (verb)

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• "After standing in front of Boston Harbor, pledging to be "the environmental president" and promising to "confront the greenhouse effect with the White House effect," President Bush spent the first two years of his term arguing that no action on global warming was necessary or advisable until the completion of a major international scientific study of the problem then under way."
• "Reuben was in the habit of what he called arguing things out by himself; and as he stood there, waiting for the verdict, he tried to put himself in the position of the jury; and he felt that, in that case, he should have difficulty in coming to a decision."
• "What people are arguing is that the law was written in order to go after foreign trusts that are used as shelters and that generate income."