(v. t.) To make a subject of dispute, contention, litigation, or emulation; to contend for; to call in question; to controvert; to oppose; to dispute.
(v. t.) To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend; as, the troops contested every inch of ground.
(v. t.) To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist; as a claim, by course of law; to controvert.
(v. i.) To engage in contention, or emulation; to contend; to strive; to vie; to emulate; -- followed usually by with.
(n.) Earnest dispute; strife in argument; controversy; debate; altercation.
(n.) Earnest struggle for superiority, victory, defense, etc.; competition; emulation; strife in arms; conflict; combat; encounter.
Example Sentences:
(1) The size of Florida makes the kind of face-to-face politics of the earlier contests impossible, requiring instead huge ad spending.
(2) Since the election on 7 March there has been a bitter contest for power in Iraq led by Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
(3) It is understood that Cooper rejected pressure from senior Labour figures last week for both her and Liz Kendall to drop out and leave the way clear for Burnham to contest Corbyn alone.
(4) As he gears up to contest the Liberal Democrat seat of Gordon in north-east Scotland, Salmond effectively assumes a commanding role in the general election campaign.
(5) This is contested by the report of three cases of dilatation of Stensen's duct complicated by lithiasis and stenosis, with associated canalar pseudo-cysts.
(6) But in each party there are major issues to be dealt with as the primary phase of the contests slips gradually into the rear-view mirror.
(7) It was not just that there was only one female candidate – Berger – across four contests.
(8) Who's backing who in the Tory leadership contest The dramatic events have put May well in the lead in parliament, with the public backing of well over 100 MPs, including 10 cabinet ministers, followed by Leadsom, with just under 40 MPs, and then Michael Gove and Stephen Crabb with over 20.
(9) South Korea was put on high alert a year ago amid fears that the North was about to provoke a clash in the contested waters of the Yellow Sea.
(10) His formal entry into the contest marks a key moment in the nascent race for the Republican nomination, which is set to be the most congested presidential primary either party has held since 1976.
(11) 9.59am GMT Summary We’ll leave you with a summary of what transpired here throughout the day: • Julia Gillard announced a contest for her position as prime minister following calls by Simon Crean, a senior minister in her government, for her to be replaced by her predecessor, Kevin Rudd • Shortly before the ballot was to take place Kevin Rudd announced he would not stand for the Labor Party leadership , re-iterating his promise to the Australian people that he would not challenge Julia Gillard • When it came time for the ballot, Gillard was the only person who stood for the leadership and she and her deputy Wayne Swan were elected unopposed .
(12) Buhari has described himself as a “converted democrat” who repeatedly contested and lost elections after civilian rule was restored 16 years ago.
(13) This study analyzed the cost-effectiveness and distribution of costs by program stage of three smoking cessation programs: a smoking cessation class; an incentive-based quit smoking contest; and a self-help quit smoking kit.
(14) Jeremy Corbyn 'would increase mandate if he faced leadership contest' Read more Inside a ground floor hall, there are already no empty seats.
(15) The contours of the next Labour leadership contest are hard to see at the moment.
(16) The show is so out of touch that 17-year-old contestant Nicholas McDonald complained to Dermot live on air during week five that none of the genres had happened within his lifetime.
(17) José Mourinho ended this breathless contest on his knees with a sliding, turf-surfing celebration that was fuelled by relief as much as joy.
(18) Summer Zervos: Apprentice contestant claims Trump kissed and groped her Read more “There’s an old principle,” said William Galston , a former adviser to Bill Clinton and now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
(19) Tonight the BBC's new singing contest The Voice goes head to head with Simon Cowell's Britain's Got Talent on ITV.
(20) Excretion of zinc and especially of silicon through the kidneys and intestine drastically grew on the day of the contest.
Sweepstakes
Definition:
(n.) A winning of all the stakes or prizes; a sweepstake.
(sing. / pl.) The whole money or other things staked at a horse race, a given sum being put up for each horse, all of which goes to the winner, or is divided among several, as may be previously agreed.
(sing. / pl.) A race for all the sums staked or prizes offered.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Sun has scrapped a World Cup sweepstake that involved 32 well-known football blogs, after a number of the bloggers criticised the newspaper for not gaining permission to be used in the promotion.
(2) "Will you be keeping a sweepstake count of the Scotland-v-France references that will crop up?"
(3) My auntie Nora combined gambling on the Irish sweepstakes with teaching me my catechism for my first Holy Communion.
(4) It appears that the first major domino might have finally fallen in the NBA’s free-agency sweepstakes.
(5) 10.18am GMT 90min: If you had two minutes of extra time in the office sweepstake you just won the prize.
(6) He went on to establish Guess2Give as an online fundraising platform whose users set up sweepstakes to fundraise.
(7) Debate over the sweepstake has been raging on the Pitch Invasion website , which has provided a list of the blogs it believes did not give permission to the Sun.
(8) Jeter asks: “Why doesn’t he just shut up?” Rodriguez helped create a new phrase in Mets lore – “24 plus one” – which was the verbiage used by then Mets GM Steve Phillips to describe why the team had opted out of the Rodriguez free-agent sweepstakes in 2000.
(9) The online sweepstake, which aimed to promote the Sun's iPhone app, was meant to be a "bit of friendly competition between the best football blogs during the World Cup".
(10) (Full disclosure: I plumped for +0.2% in the office sweepstake).
(11) Bloggers were sent an email saying their sites were to be used in the sweepstake and would receive lots of traffic through the association.
(12) Guess2Give.com Founder Mark Chandler previously worked at a large cancer charity and came up with the ideas for Guess2Give when he ran a successful fundraising sweepstake on his triathlon time, rather than just asking for sponsorship.
(13) Having secured an urgent question on the matter, Yvette Cooper bounced to her feet with all the confidence of someone who had just drawn Brazil in the shadow cabinet World Cup sweepstake.
(14) 17 min: "I am torn, as I have a Kiwi girlfriend, but also Paraguay in the office sweepstake," writes Michael Hunt (yes, Mike Hunt, tee-hee, no need to email in about it).
(15) Until recently the smart money was on a contraction (the sweepstake in our office runs from 0 down to -0.5%) but there was talk yesterday that it could be positive.
(16) "I do, however, have France in the sweepstake at work," he writes, "so I got myself into the spirit of things today by having some brie and grapes at lunch time.
(17) The £18 in the Guardian and Observer Sport sweepstake has been split by Observer production editor Philip Cornwall and Big Website Big Cheese James Dart, who scored nine points each.
(18) As ever, tickets to attend the gigs are being distributed via a mixture of an online sweepstake and competitions run by media partners, from newspapers and radio stations to Twitter and Shazam.
(19) But I have to say, the current shadow chancellor has outperformed him in the fiscal incontinence sweepstakes.
(20) Express newspapers chief Richard Desmond has been urged to increase the amount of cash his new "health lottery", launched on Tuesday, will raise for good causes after the sweepstake was branded a "disgraceful development" by a leading charity figure.