contest verb [T] (ARGUE) If you contest a formal statement, a claim, a judge's decision, or a legal case, you say formally that it is wrong or unfair and try to have it changed:

CONTEST definition: a race, conflict, or other competition between rivals, as for a prize. See examples of contest used in a sentence.

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If you're being sued and you respond to the court order saying "no contest," you're saying you're not going to put up a fight. When you put the accent on the second syllable, contest becomes a verb, …

The meaning of CONTEST is strive, vie. How to use contest in a sentence.

A contest is a struggle to win power or control. The state election due in November will be the last such ballot before next year's presidential contest.

Definition of contest noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

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strife in argument; dispute; controversy: Their marriage was marred by perpetual contest. v.t. to struggle or fight for, as in battle. to argue against; dispute: to contest a controversial question; to contest a …