challengechallenge2 ●●● S3 W3 AWL verb [transitive] 
a boy with a reputation for challenging the authority of his teacherschallenge a view/an idea/an assumption etc Viewpoints such as these are strongly challenged by environmentalists. They went to the High Court to challenge the decision.challenge somebody to do something I challenge Dr. Carver to deny his involvement!2competition to invite someone to compete or fight against you, or to try to win somethingchallenge somebody to something After lunch, Carey challenged me to a game of tennis.challenge for Liverpool are challenging for the title (=in a position where they could win).3something difficult to test the skills or abilities of someone or something SYN stimulate: I’m really at my best when I’m challenged.challenge somebody to do something Every teacher ought to be challenging kids to think about current issues.4stop somebody to stop someone and demand proof of who they are, and an explanation of what they are doing: We were challenged by the security guard at the gate.5in law law to state before the start of a court case that a juror is not acceptable—challenger noun [countable]: Lewis is his main challenger for the world title.
WORD ORIGINchallenge2
Origin:
1200-1300 Old French chalengier ‘to accuse’, from Latin calumniari ‘to accuse falsely’, from calumnia; ➔ CALUMNYVERB TABLE
challenge
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | challenge |
| he, she, it | challenges | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | challenged |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have challenged |
| he, she, it | has challenged | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had challenged |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will challenge |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have challenged |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am challenging |
| he, she, it | is challenging | |
| you, we, they | are challenging | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was challenging |
| you, we, they | were challenging | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been challenging |
| he, she, it | has been challenging | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been challenging |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be challenging |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been challenging |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Billboard companies say they will challenge the new law in court.
- Guards were ordered to challenge anyone entering the building.
- He's a good choir director - he really challenges us.
- Many doctors have challenged the accuracy of his findings.
- I challenge this assumption, and question the push into Putumayo.
- Owner Fred Davies is challenging the council after being refused permission to convert the ailing hotel into a nursing home.
- That claim has been challenged and much debated, but it seems to hold up.
- The beatitudes are counter-cultural, because they correct and challenge the ways in which we understand happiness.
- We were challenging all the traditional methods of testing for poisons.
WORD SETS
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escrow, nounescrow agent, estate, nounestoppel, nounevidence, nounexamination, nounexamination-in-chief, nounexamine, verbexculpate, verbexecute, verbexecutor, nounexecutrix, nounexhibit, nounexpectations, nounex post facto law, nounexpropriate, verbextradite, verbextrajudicial, adjectivefair dealing, false representation, nounfee absolute, nounfiduciary, nounfiduciary, adjectivefinding, nounfirm name, nounfixtures and fittings, nounforce majeure, nounforeman, nounforewoman, nounfreeholder, nounfree pardon, nounfrustration of contract, fugitive, nounfugitive, adjectivegagging order, gag order, noungarnishee, verbgarnishee, noungeneral counsel, noungeneral practice, noungive, verbgrand jury, noungrantee, noungrantor, noungreen paper, noungross misconduct, ground rent, nounguarantee, verbguarantor, nounguaranty, nounguillotine, verbguilt, noungun control, nounhabeas corpus, nounHague Rules, nounhear, verbhearing, nounheir, nounheir apparent, nounhereafter, adverbhereditament, nounhereinafter, adverbhereof, adverbhereto, adverbheritable, adjectiveHigh Court, nounHighway Code, nounhirer, nounhuman right, nounimplied term, inadmissible, adjectiveinalienable, adjectiveincriminate, verbindemnify, verbindemnity, nounindict, verbindictable, adjectiveindictment, nounindustrial tribunal, nouninitiative, nouninjunction, nounin loco parentis, adverbinnocence, nouninnocent, adjectiveinoperative, adjectiveinquest, nouninsanity, nouninstruct, verbintellectual property, nounintent, nouninterdict, nouninterlocutory injunction, invoke, verbJane Doe, nounjob quota, joint and several liability, JP, nounjudge, nounjudge, verbjudicial, adjectivejuridical, adjectivejurisdiction, nounjurisprudence, nounjurist, nounjuror, nounjury, nounjury box, nounjury service, nounjustice, nounJustice of the Peace, nounjustifiable homicide, nounjuvenile, adjectivekangaroo court, nounKing's Counsel, nounlaw firm, nounlawyer, nounlease, nounleasehold, adjectiveleaseholder, nounlegatee, nounlegator, nounlessee, nounlessor, nounletters of administration, nounliable, adjectivelicensee, nounlien, nounlienee, nounlienor, nounlimited liability, nounliquidated damages, litigant, nounlitigate, verblitigation, nounlitigator, nounlitigious, adjectiveliving will, nounloophole, nounmagisterial, adjectivemagistracy, nounmagistrate, nounMagistrates' Court, nounmaintenance, nounmajority, nounmalfeasance, nounmalpractice, nounmarriage certificate, nounmarriage licence, nounmarriage lines, nounmaterial, adjectivematerial fact, nounmemorandum, nounmiscarriage of justice, nounmisdirect, verbmisfeasance, nounmisstatement, nounmistrial, nounM'lord, nounM'lud, nounmoiety, nounmonies, nounmoot court, nounmoratorium, nounmovable, nounno-fault, adjectivenolo contendere, nounnonfeasance, nounnon-negotiable, adjectivenotary, nounnuisance, nounnullify, verbnullity, nounoath, nounopen-and-shut case, nounopen verdict, nounoperative mistake, nounordinance, nounoriginating application, originating summons, outlaw, nounout-of-court settlement, nounoyez, interjectionpalimony, nounpanel, nounparalegal, nounpardon, verbpardon, nounparty, nounpass, verbpassage, nounpatent, nounpatent, adjectivepaternity, nounpaternity suit, nounpatrimony, nounpenal code, nounpenalty, nounperformance contract, perjury, nounpersonal injury, personal representative, personalty, nounpetition, nounpetition, verbpetitioner, nounplaintiff, nounplanning permission, nounplea bargaining, nounpleadings, nounpledgee, nounpolice, verbpositive discrimination, nounpower of attorney, nounprecedent, nounprejudice, verbpreservation order, nounpresume, verbprice-fixing, nounprima facie, adjectiveprimary residence, prime tenant, primogeniture, nounprivate law, nounprivileged, adjectiveprivity, nounprobate, nounprobate, verbprobation, nounprobationer, nounprobation officer, nounpro bono, adjectiveprocedural, adjectiveproceeding, nounproceedings, nounprohibit, verbprohibition, nounprohibitive, adjectivepromulgate, verbpronounce, verbproposition, nounproscribe, verbprosecute, verbprosecution, nounprosecutor, nounprotective custody, nounprove, verbprovision, nounprovisional licence, nounproximate cause, nounpublic defender, nounpublic prosecutor, nounpublic service vehicle, punishable, adjectiveQC, nounquarter sessions, nounquash, verbQueen's Counsel, nounreal property, nounrecess, nounrecess, verbrecognition, nounrecognizance, nounrecorder, nounreeve, nounregulation, nounremand, verbremand, nounrepeal, verbrescind, verbrespondent, nounrestoration, nounrestore, verbretainer, nounretrial, nounretroactive, adjectiveretrospective, adjectiveretry, verbreversion, nounrevocation, nounrevoke, verbRex, nounright of appeal, nounroad tax, nounroot of title, royalty payment, rule, verbruling, nounsaid, adjectivesalami slicing, nounSarbanes-Oxley Act, nounscheme of arrangement, nounsentence, nounsentence, verbsequester, verbsession, nounsettlement date, settlement terms, shall, modal verbshell company, sheriff, nounsheriff court, nounshow trial, nounsitting tenant, nounsmall claims court, nounsolicitor, nounsolicitor general, nounSOX, nounspecial licence, nounspecific performance, speed limit, nounstakeholder, nounstate attorney, nounstate court, nounstated case, statute, nounstatute law, nounstatute of limitations, nounstatutory, adjectivestatutory report, stay, nounstay of execution, nounstipendiary magistrate, nounstoppage in transit, nounsub judice, adverbsubmission, nounsuborn, verbsubpoena, nounsubpoena, verbsue, verbsuit, nounsumming up, nounsumming-up, nounsummons, nounsummons, verbSupreme Court, nounsurety, nounsuspended sentence, nounswear, verbtechnicality, nountenant at sufferance, nountenant at will, nountenant for years, nountenant in common, nountenure, nountestament, nountestator, nountest case, nountest certificate, nountestify, verbtestimony, nounthereinafter, adverbthird party, nounthrough, prepositionticket, nounticket, verbtitle, nountitle deed, nountitle holder, nountort, nountradename, nounTrading Standards, treasure trove, nountrespass, verbtrespass, nountrial, nountrust for sale, nounultra vires, adjectiveunderwriting power, undue influence, noununlicensed, adjectiveuphold, verbverdict, nounvindicate, verbvisa, nounvoucher, nounward, nounwarrant, nounwhereas, conjunctionwill, nounwill, verbwinding up, nounwitness, nounwitness, verbwitness box, nounwrit, nounwrongful termination,
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY a boy with a reputation for challenging the authority of his teachers Viewpoints such as these are strongly challenged by environmentalists. They went to the High Court to challenge the decision.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Can Thompson make a credible challenge for the party leadership? The officer challenged him to a duel. the formidable task of local government reorganization Friends of the Earth are mounting a campaign to monitor the illegal logging of trees. Rick took up the challenge and cycled the 250-mile route alone.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
a boy with a reputation for challenging the authority of his teachers Viewpoints such as these are strongly challenged by environmentalists. They went to the High Court to challenge the decision.· To protect the environment we must accept some difficult challenges.
(=try to take the power away from someone)· There had been no-one to really challenge his authority.
· The leadership saw the demonstrations as a challenge to their authority.
(=say that you do not believe it is true)· Washington continued to challenge the claim that global warming is partly caused by carbon dioxide.
Can Thompson make a credible challenge for the party leadership?· I chose this job because I like having to deal with new challenges every day.
The officer challenged him to a duel.· The coal industry faces serious challenges.
the formidable task of local government reorganization Friends of the Earth are mounting a campaign to monitor the illegal logging of trees.· Copernicus challenged the notion that the Sun goes around the Earth.
· The material being taught must pose a challenge to pupils.
· I'm enjoying my new job because it presents an interesting challenge.
· Mr Taylor is a man who cannot resist a challenge.
(=be different from the usual idea of something)· These young women want to challenge gender stereotypes.
· She said she couldn’t face tackling the job on her own.
Rick took up the challenge and cycled the 250-mile route alone.· We rarely sit down to challenge some assumption we have always used.· They ended by challenging many of the assumptions of scientific management and establishing that work had both social and psychological dimensions.· Transnationalism and interdependence challenge the three assumptions of Realism noted by Vasquez.· In doing so, they challenge the assumptions of the modern worldview as never be-fore.· No-one challenged the assumptions which ran throughout the lecture.· The furore among providers about current government-funding policies which challenge the latter assumption suggests that this is a real danger.· Another move might have involved challenging some assumption in the protective belt such as those concerning refraction in the earth's atmosphere.· Moreover, the findings challenge conventional assumptions about the amounts of time the different subjects should be allocated.
· He thus challenged authority simply by declaring that he was al-haqq, truth incarnate.· Then there are the risks of challenging this in authority.· Anyone who challenges my authority will have to stand up to this divine power when I come to Corinth.· It challenges their authority and specialisms and notions of objectivity.· There were no fractious sects and gangsters to challenge his authority.
· Don't be afraid occasionally to challenge claims for taxi fares and expensive meals.· Washington continues to challenge the scientific claim that global warming is in part caused by emissions of carbon dioxide.· The Pembrokeshire Shell Fishermen's Association challenge the claim, and warn that any such ban will threaten the livelihoods of locals.· None challenged the claim that his marriage was a sham.
· So they went to the High Court to challenge the decision and have been given leave to seek a judicial review.· Coaches would not challenge trivial decisions.· The representatives of several cities and states immediately announced their intention to challenge Mosbacher's decision in court.· Allstate has said regardless of whether the settlement is challenged, its decision to turn agents into independent contractors will remain intact.· Several unsuccessful companies announced that they were considering challenging the commission's decisions in court.· The local presbytery agreed, but 10 area churches challenged the decision.· Attempts by parents to challenge case conference decisions through the courts have not met with much success.
· Several rival revolutionary armies were challenging the central government and each other.· After two years of challenging the power of governments, the movement has become a power in its own right.· Sanctions have decimated the middle class-usually the source of leaders who might challenge the government.· Growing forces of opposition are challenging this government.
· Those who saw rural values being challenged by modern urban ideas found another cause to support in 1925.· People who are engaged in groundbreaking collaborations have high regard for people who challenge and test their ideas.
· Some of the no-show gun owners were making a protest, and at least one provincial government has challenged the law.· The court must first decide whether the banks have the right to challenge the credit union law.· First, the Supreme Court must rule on whether the banks have legal standing to challenge the law.· Six states have challenged the law in federal court.· The Schempp children, who were Unitarians, challenged the law.
· It is challenging for the same leadership in applications software.· Heseltine declares that he can not foresee the circumstances in which he would challenge her for the leadership.· In adopting this crusade, the press barons were also directly challenging Baldwin's leadership of the Government and of the party.
· From time to time evidence appears which challenges received notions of the truth.· Advanced computers are even beginning to challenge long-held notions about intelligence and thought.· This finding challenges the notion that carbohydrate malabsorption is uncommon in patients with chronic pancreatitis.· Beyond these formal structures, the folks at Thayer challenge yet one more notion that often shapes the structures of schooling.· Anti-debt campaigners in the South are urging their counterparts in the North to challenge the official notion of poverty reduction.· But lately some researchers are challenging the notion that memory loss is inevitable.· Here he challenges the notion that practice is activity and not thought.· Some challenge the notion of corporate culture as the primary culprit.
· A cornettist equally capable of filigree delicacy and challenging power, Barnard's contribution to jazz is considerable.· The council was established by the Legislature to challenge the power of the federal government.· They also enabled women to challenge male professional power while at the same time implicating them in coercive class regulation.· We must strengthen the rights of consumers and challenge the power of monopolies and big business.· After two years of challenging the power of governments, the movement has become a power in its own right.· The feminist repeal movement was highly successful in challenging the gendered power relations inscribed within medical interventionism.
· Verney said the party is ready to challenge that rule in court.· But many railroads have challenged these rules in the past.
· Yet much of the research of the last fifteen years in writing has challenged this view.· Mars' book challenges this view, and we will include two extracts from it.· Models of interdependence focus on interstate relations but challenge the realist view of states as independent actors.· This criticism challenges the view of human nature and the human condition constructed by liberal theories.· However, no one has seriously challenged the view that attempted suicide should be regarded as an inappropriate way of coping with problems.· It can be exciting to challenge people's view of me.· He challenges the orthodox view that elderly people turn to formal agencies for help only when informal support is absent or inadequate.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
- Are both boys and girls shown developing independent lives, independently meeting challenges, and finding their own solutions?
- Capable of successfully and creatively meeting challenges. salary / benefits: Excellent salary and benefits package.
- Ideally, pre-marital counselling, supplemented before parenthood, would meet problems before they could arise.
- These patterns evolve over time, as an organization attempts to meet challenge after challenge in the best way it knows how.
- Barragan rose to the occasion and defeated his opponent.
- Naylor was one of those men who rise to the challenge of danger.
- The team rose to the challenge and fought back to produce another goal.
- We are calling on all our employees to rise to the occasion and become more efficient and productive.
- And Charles noted with relief how Alex was rising to the challenge.
- Bench strength could be suspect, but it has risen to the occasion the past two playoff runs.
- Of course, many princes rose to the challenge, but each lost his life in the quest.
- Rather than offer pure fantasy, the fashion gurus rose to the challenge of suggesting truly flattering, appropriate and stylish options.
- Sunderland again rose to the occasion against better opposition and just about deserved to get the points to ease their relegation worries considerably.
- The academic community was slower in rising to the challenge.
- Which means that even the most delicate of dishes will rise to the occasion.
- Who will rise to the challenge?
WORD FAMILYadjectivechallengingchallenged ≠ unchallengedunchallengeablenounchallengechallengerverbchallengeadverbchallengingly
1question something to refuse to accept that something is right, fair, or legal: a boy with a reputation for challenging the authority of his teacherschallenge a view/an idea/an assumption etc Viewpoints such as these are strongly challenged by environmentalists. They went to the High Court to challenge the decision.challenge somebody to do something I challenge Dr. Carver to deny his involvement!2competition to invite someone to compete or fight against you, or to try to win somethingchallenge somebody to something After lunch, Carey challenged me to a game of tennis.challenge for Liverpool are challenging for the title (=in a position where they could win).3something difficult to test the skills or abilities of someone or something SYN stimulate: I’m really at my best when I’m challenged.challenge somebody to do something Every teacher ought to be challenging kids to think about current issues.4stop somebody to stop someone and demand proof of who they are, and an explanation of what they are doing: We were challenged by the security guard at the gate.5in law law to state before the start of a court case that a juror is not acceptable—challenger noun [countable]: Lewis is his main challenger for the world title.