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Consider the nonlinear homogeneous difference equation \[ x_n^p (x_{n+1}- ax_n)^q+ \sum_{i=1}^m b_i x_{n-\sigma_i}^r=0, \qquad n\in\mathbb{Z} \tag \(*\) \] where \(a,b_i> 0\), \(i= 1,2,\dots, m\), \(q\) and \(r\) are quotients of odd positive integers, \(p\geq 0\), \(r= p+q\), \(\sigma_1,\dots, \sigma_m\) are positive integers with \(\sigma_1< \sigma_2<\dots <\sigma_m\). The authors show that every nonoscillatory entire solution \(x_n\) of \((*)\) has exponential bounds on \(\mathbb{Z}\). Further explicit conditions for oscillation in terms of coefficients of \((*)\) are also obtained.