contest
IPA: kˈɑntɛst
noun
- (uncountable) Controversy; debate.
- (uncountable) Struggle for superiority; combat.
- (countable) A competition.
verb
- (intransitive) To contend.
- (transitive) To call into question; to oppose.
- (transitive) To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend.
- (law) To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist, as a claim, by course of law.
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Examples of "contest" in Sentences
- The title contest was played in front of 93,000 fans Saturday night at the sold-out Rose Bowl in Los Angeles.
- Virtually every player and coach from the 1989 teams will finally face off at the same Morristown arena where the title contest would have taken place.
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