How to pronounce “contest”

Meaning

• [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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