contest1 nouncontest2 verb
contestcon‧test1 /ˈkɒntest $ ˈkɑːn-/ ●●○ W3 noun [countable] 
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a close contest for the mayor's job
- Harriet decided to enter Henry in the cute baby contest.
- Jack always wins the pub's karaoke contest.
- Jake always enters the arm-wrestling contest at the local fair.
- She won several beauty contests when she was in her early twenties.
- The essay contest is open to all teenagers.
- The event, held every four years in Fort Worth, Texas, is the country's leading piano contest.
- As the boss of this contest, you get to set the rules.
- But one thing remained constant: In a big contest, Gretzky will come through in a big way.
- Did I mention that the contest is also a fund-raiser?
- He looked very nice in it and he did win the contest, so Ken did know what he was doing.
- In the tactical contest Wilkinson emerged on top.
- Lena knew that she had entered the contest without the support of others in the church.
- The company also pleaded no contest to falsifying its records to hide the illegal contributions.
- We had many good contests on the track and there was some conflict off the track as well.
Longman Language Activatorsomeone who likes competing
an organized event in which people try to do an activity or sport better than other people, especially in order to win a prize: · He was awarded first prize in the National Poetry Competition.· A spelling bee is a competition in which people try to correctly spell words.win a competition: · A student from St. Paul won the speechwriting competition.enter a competition (=be in a competition): · Enter our free competition and win a weekend in Paris.competition to do something: · They're holding a competition to come up with a name for the new bridge.hold/have a competition: · The company developing the site had held a competition to find a master-planner.
an important sports event in which players or teams play against each other to decide who is the best in an area, the country, or the world: · The sixth game of the World Chess Championship will be broadcast tonight on Channel 6.win a championship: · At 17, he was the youngest player to win the Men's Tennis Championship.state/national/world etc championship: · Gutierrez said he has a plan he hopes will carry him through to his first world championship.
a competition in a sport or game in which each player or team plays a series of games until one person or team wins: · an international golf tournament· There's a volleyball tournament at Sunset Park which begins today.win a tournament: · Telford won the local five-a-side football tournament.
a competition in which a person or team does an activity, and a group of judges decide which of them is the best: · The event, held every four years in Fort Worth, Texas, is the country's leading piano contest.enter a contest: · Jake always enters the arm-wrestling contest at the local fair.enter somebody in/for a contest: · Harriet decided to enter Henry in the cute baby contest.win a contest: · Jack always wins the pub's karaoke contest.beauty contest (=a contest in which judges decide who is the most beautiful woman): · She won several beauty contests when she was in her early twenties.
to win easily · Everyone expected the Democrats to win easily.win something easily · She won the race easily with seconds to spare.
to win very easily without having any problems: · The Socialists will win hands down if the election is free and fair.· The newer model wins hands down when it comes to speed and capacity.
if a game, competition etc is no contest , one person or team wins so easily that it is impossible for their opponent to win: · In the end it was no contest. New Labour won more votes than even they thought possible.
to win a game or competition very easily, especially because you are much better than your opponents: · United have established a clear lead, and are threatening to run away with the championship.
American to be very likely to easily win an election, competition etc, by having many more points, votes etc than you opponents: · He looked like a shoo-in to win South Carolina's Republican presidential primary.
to win very easily, in a way that impresses people - used especially in news reports: · Olson scored twice as the Rams swept to victory.· Nixon swept to victory by 47 million votes to 29 million.
British informal to win a race or game easily: · No goals were scored in the first half but Spurs romped home in the second, scoring four.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYverbs
one of the most hard-fought games this season a hard-fought battle for the presidency one of the most hotly contested congressional elections the Conservative leadership contest
(=take part in one)· Anyone over 18 years old can enter the contest.
· Twenty-five countries took part in the contest.
· The band has competed in many contests over the years.
· He won a public-speaking contest at his school.
(=stop taking part in a contest)· Two candidates had withdrawn from the contest.
· My college holds an athletics contest once a year.
· The contest took place in Berlin.
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + contest (=in which two politicians compete to become leader of their party)· The party did not want the turmoil of a leadership contest.
· the 1987 U.S presidential contest
· What will be the outcome of the electoral contest?
(=to find the most beautiful person)· Miss Colombia won the beauty contest.
(=to find the best performer)· She's singing a song in the school talent contest.
(=to decide which person people like the most)· The competition has turned into a popularity contest.
(=one which someone wins by a very small amount)· The race was a close contest between two evenly matched crews.
(=one in which everyone has the same chance of winning)· Divide the class into groups in a way that will make it a fair contest.
British English (=one in which everyone has the same chance of winning)· One of the men was much older so it was hardly an even contest.
British English (=one in which one of the people, groups etc has a better chance of winning)· Given their military strength, the war was a pretty unequal contest.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES one of the most hard-fought games this season a hard-fought battle for the presidency one of the most hotly contested congressional elections the Conservative leadership contest (=competition to find who the most popular person is)· All election campaigns are popularity contests to some degree.
(also run for a seat) (=try to win it)· Twenty-four candidates contested the five seats.· He ran for the seat as a Republican.
· Don’t assume winning a talent contest is a passport to success.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· Their bosses, who play the same game with their bosses, join in the annual contest of hide and seek.· An annual contest for authors of programs that can fool human judges at least some of the time was suspended last year.· The Midvale Park neighborhood sparks up a million little beacons with its annual holiday lighting contest.
· But one thing remained constant: In a big contest, Gretzky will come through in a big way.· She win big writing contest, which not surprise me.
· Any Conservative you care to converse with will predict a close contest at the next election.· But it's a close contest.· As the scores were read out like a football draw it became clear that it would be a close contest.· In 1966 it produced the closest contest of any post-war election with a three-vote Conservative win after seven recounts.· Following what promises to be the closest contest for 50 years, publishers are dreading a rush of ink to the head.
· Tibbu further complicated electoral contests there.· Yeltsin has entered an electoral contest that may be less bloody but even harder for him to win.· He is both sharply divided from his party opponents and emotionally involved in electoral contests.
· The grievance between the Bank Assistants and the Bank for parity was a fair contest.
· The mischief produced by this institution was incalculable because it made religious differences the deciding factor in every political contest.
· Last week Iowa delivered the first results of the presidential contest of 2000.· The number of illiterate adults exceeds by 16 million the entire vote cast for the winner in the 1980 presidential contest.· It's a familiar routine, as Bush continues to work the centre ground in his presidential contest with Al Gore.· Both the Clinton and Dole campaigns had assumed the presidential contest in Ohio would go down the wire.· Dole is considered to be the man to beat in the Republican presidential contest.· Kerrey is considered a potential rival of Gore in the next presidential contest.· Politics was discussed at the dinner table every night, and in 1960, the Kennedy-Nixon presidential contest divided his parents.· But on Tuesday, Louisiana is set to hold the first caucuses of the 1996 presidential contest.
· There were also primary contests in South Dakota and Mississippi.· In another similarity to a primary contest, political activists say a surprisingly large portion of the Iowa Republicans remain undecided.
· As predicted, the Republican contest was duly won by Bush, whilst Harkin massively outscored his Democratic rivals.· Dole is considered to be the man to beat in the Republican presidential contest.· In the Republican contest Bush won 76 percent of the votes in Illinois, compared with 22 percent for Buchanan.
· The interlopers soon give up the unequal contest.· It was an unequal contest, and Lorton was tired of playing the loser.· It can become an unequal contest.· You will find it an unequal contest.
NOUN· Just like the outside world, only in a beauty contest you are more aware of it!· Most interviewers did their jobs like judges at a beauty contest.· Fortunately, he ate his last slice long before the advent of pub beauty contests.· College football is as much a beauty contest as it is a game.· Dave Simpson's adult comedy, set in a beauty contest, returns to Liverpool after a successful run last year.· Mrs Wexford had a magnificent figure and a fine profile although she had never been of the stuff that wins beauty contests.· He said he had been to a beauty contest where the audience were mostly farmers.· The play is set in a seedy northern beauty contest, which gives Paula the chance to use her original Mancunian accent.
· By the closing date for nominations for the leadership contest of Nov. 15 only Thatcher and Heseltine had been nominated.· He presided over the 1990 leadership contest that saw the departure of Margaret Thatcher and the arrival of John Major.· Labour's National Executive Committee agreed last night that the leadership contest should take place at a special conference on July 18.· Refuse to play games Is there an alternative for Labour to the introspection of leadership contests and inquests?· He certainly welcomed the leadership contest, but then so did many others.
· It will be a popularity contest.· Popularity is nice, but this is no popularity contest.· Like most goods, stocks are a kind of popularity contest.
· Finally, don't assume winning a talent contest is a passport to success.· The talent contest had taken place in a marquee.
VERB· You may receive promotional offers after entering this contest.· To enter this super contest simply answer the following question and state which hand-held you would like to win.· Of course, if you are the type who will enter this contest, you probably already own it.· Boat Show, of course, as will all other contest entrants, making everybody who entered the contest a winner.· Other players could still enter the contest, but it is increasingly unlikely that any would be acceptable to the United board.· Once upon a time, I entered chili contests.
· In 1905, Britain held its first beauty contest in Newcastle.· This month they are holding a long-drive contest.· Stone decided to hold a contest to see who could come up with a motto that would best capture that value.
· Davies first confirmed that intruders do usually lose contests over territories.· Spaulding said the design firms who lost in the contest will be encouraged to submit plans for individual buildings on the campus.· You lost that contest with my Sam because I decided you had to lose it.
· The company also pleaded no contest to falsifying its records to hide the illegal contributions.· Irvin is on probation after pleading no contest in July to a felony charge of cocaine possession.· The study excluded cases in which defendants pleaded guilty or no contest, and it did not involve new interviews with defendants.· Unocal later pleads no contest to 12 criminal counts filed by the state and agrees to pay a $ 3 million fine.· Last month, he pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor voter-fraud charge.· Earlier this week, Sherrod pleaded no contest to contempt of court for fleeing Holley.· Irvin served a five-game suspension this season after pleading no contest to felony cocaine possession.· Burgess pleaded no contest and was fined $ 150.
· He looked very nice in it and he did win the contest, so Ken did know what he was doing.· It was like winning the contest, numbers flashing, applause.· Finally, don't assume winning a talent contest is a passport to success.· She win big writing contest, which not surprise me.· Barbara has won countless Glamorous Grandmother contests since becoming the first ever winner of the Widnes title in 1977.· The company is 100 years old, and its birds win tasting contests all the time.· MacQuillan was destined to win the contest, but I was prepared to get a strike or two in first.· He has won every contest since then.
· His close rival, the Maharaja of Rewa, reached a total of 500 and then withdrew from the contest.· Paul Tsongas, who had formally withdrawn from the contest, polled 12, 8 and 10 percent respectively.· In any event, in mid-April he withdrew from the contest.· Wallace then withdrew from the contest after running 51 7 miles in 7 7 hours.· Two candidates had withdrawn from the contest, leaving him as sole contender.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1a competition or a situation in which two or more people or groups are competing with each othercontest for- In the end, it was no contest with the Cardinals beating the Mets 9-2.
- And of course there were no contested elections.
- At present there is no contest for the five and threes enthusiasts in the county although there is a national competition.
- Hooker, Glynn Mann got them back into it and after that there was no contest.
- In April, Sharpe pleaded guilty to possessing a crack pipe and no contest to attempted aggravated assault.
- The company also pleaded no contest to falsifying its records to hide the illegal contributions.
- The study excluded cases in which defendants pleaded guilty or no contest, and it did not involve new interviews with defendants.
- There was no contest between the levers.
- Unocal later pleads no contest to 12 criminal counts filed by the state and agrees to pay a $ 3 million fine.
- He pleaded no contest to driving without a license.
- As a result, McCowan pleaded no contest, Sacks said.
- Burgess pleaded no contest and was fined $ 150.
- Earlier this week, Sherrod pleaded no contest to contempt of court for fleeing Holley.
- Irvin is on probation after pleading no contest in July to a felony charge of cocaine possession.
- Irvin served a five-game suspension this season after pleading no contest to felony cocaine possession.
- Last month, he pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor voter-fraud charge.
- The company also pleaded no contest to falsifying its records to hide the illegal contributions.
- Unocal later pleads no contest to 12 criminal counts filed by the state and agrees to pay a $ 3 million fine.
- Third, after a terrific three-cornered fight, were David Hoskins and David James.
the bitter contest for the Republican presidential nomination Stone decided to hold a contest to see who could write the best song. I only entered the contest for fun. It is clear that the election will be a close contest.contest between/against the 1960 contest between Kennedy and Nixon the 1975 Liberal leadership contest2no contest informal a)spoken used to say that someone or something is the best of its kind: I think you’re the best rider here, no contest. b)if a victory is no contest, it is very easy to achieve3plead no contest law to state that you will not offer a defence in a court of law for something wrong you have doneCOLLOCATIONSverbsenter a contest (=take part in one)· Anyone over 18 years old can enter the contest.take part in a contest· Twenty-five countries took part in the contest.compete in a contest· The band has competed in many contests over the years.win/lose a contest· He won a public-speaking contest at his school.withdraw from a contest (=stop taking part in a contest)· Two candidates had withdrawn from the contest.have/hold a contest· My college holds an athletics contest once a year.a contest takes place· The contest took place in Berlin.ADJECTIVES/NOUN + contesta leadership contest (=in which two politicians compete to become leader of their party)· The party did not want the turmoil of a leadership contest.a presidential contest· the 1987 U.S presidential contestan electoral/election contest· What will be the outcome of the electoral contest?a beauty contest (=to find the most beautiful person)· Miss Colombia won the beauty contest.a talent contest (=to find the best performer)· She's singing a song in the school talent contest.a popularity contest (=to decide which person people like the most)· The competition has turned into a popularity contest.close (=one which someone wins by a very small amount)· The race was a close contest between two evenly matched crews.fair (=one in which everyone has the same chance of winning)· Divide the class into groups in a way that will make it a fair contest.even/equal British English (=one in which everyone has the same chance of winning)· One of the men was much older so it was hardly an even contest.uneven/unequal British English (=one in which one of the people, groups etc has a better chance of winning)· Given their military strength, the war was a pretty unequal contest.contest1 nouncontest2 verb
contestcon‧test2 /kənˈtest/ ●●○ verb [transitive] formal WORD ORIGINcontest2
Origin:
1500-1600 French contester, from Latin contestari ‘to call a witness, bring a legal case’, from com- ( ➔ COM-) + testis ‘witness’VERB TABLE
contest
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | contest |
| he, she, it | contests | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | contested |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have contested |
| he, she, it | has contested | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had contested |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will contest |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have contested |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am contesting |
| he, she, it | is contesting | |
| you, we, they | are contesting | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was contesting |
| you, we, they | were contesting | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been contesting |
| he, she, it | has been contesting | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been contesting |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be contesting |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been contesting |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- In 1991 White contested the US Open and the J G Scott Trophy.-
- The leadership election will be contested by four candidates.
- The pharmacy company contested the agency's findings.
- The ruling party will contest 158 seats in Algeria's elections.
- Among domestic mergers, the buyout of Credito Romagnolo was the most contested.
- Congress had granted him another amnesty to contest the 1992 election.
- Medical science is contesting the will.
- No one seriously contests any more that a hostile tax climate has hurt New York's economy.
- She filed in the fall of 1989, and at that time, her former husband did not contest the petition.
- The region has been fiercely contested by guerrillas and the paramilitary forces for the past few years.
- These last propositions were hotly contested in the apostolic community.
Longman Language Activatorto take part in a competition, sports event etc
· Any child between the ages of 8 and 12 is allowed to compete.compete in · Athletes from 197 countries competed in the Olympic Games in Atlanta.compete against · Bailey has competed against athletes half his age and won.
British: contest the final/the US Open/the election etc to compete in a sporting event or election - used especially in newspapers and television reports: · In 1991 White contested the US Open and the J G Scott Trophy.· The leadership election will be contested by four candidates.
a competition in which people try to run, drive, ride a horse, etc faster than other people in order to finish first: · It's a 10-kilometer race from downtown to the river.· the Breeder's Cup races at Churchill Downswin a race: · He's won three races in a row, using the same car and the same engine.qualify for a race (=to have run, driven etc fast enough to take part in a particular race): · Krystal has already qualified for the hundred-metre race in the Olympics next year.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES one of the most hard-fought games this season a hard-fought battle for the presidency one of the most hotly contested congressional elections the Conservative leadership contest
one of the most hard-fought games this season a hard-fought battle for the presidency one of the most hotly contested congressional elections the Conservative leadership contest (=competition to find who the most popular person is)· All election campaigns are popularity contests to some degree.
(also run for a seat) (=try to win it)· Twenty-four candidates contested the five seats.· He ran for the seat as a Republican.
· Don’t assume winning a talent contest is a passport to success.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB· Lincoln's role in determining the future of the Barnes is bound to be contested bitterly.· Denney created an atmosphere of strict discipline that was resented and bitterly contested by patients for years.
· The region has been fiercely contested by guerrillas and the paramilitary forces for the past few years.· Target shareholders can sometimes be circumspect about accepting ordinary shares in the offeror, particularly if the takeover has been fiercely contested.· If this was truly representative of tomorrow's task then the event would be fiercely contested.· In its case, although just viable, opinions over its right to life are fiercely contested.
· On the other hand, Best Supporting Actress was hotly contested.· But privatization of any government function has been hotly contested issue in Sacramento.· These last propositions were hotly contested in the apostolic community.· That unit is expected to fetch about $ 9 billion in a hotly contested auction within a few weeks.· The other awards, featured on page 15, may be more prestigious but they certainly won't be more hotly contested.· H are the highest profile and most hotly contested items on the Nov. 4 ballot.· The requests may signal that the jurors are focusing on the hotly contested blood evidence.· On Wednesday, both sides of the hotly contested ballot initiative moved their battle into the courts.
· Any reference to payment of rent by banker's order or credit transfer should be vigorously contested.· The most vigorously contested races are for the Legislature, where term limits have forced out 13 Bay Area incumbents.
NOUN· A total of 406 candidates contested the election and a 72 percent turnout was registered.· Six candidates are contesting this sprawling seat, which stretches from the historic town of Stirling, north and west to Crianlarich.
· Mason is one of the few hardware suppliers to contest his case in court.
· Last week, she won her freedom after agreeing not to contest charges of second-degree murder.· Mullin, who was fired in August 1994, will contest the charges, his attorney has said.
· The five other parties contesting the election failed to secure sufficient support to gain representation.· No one there had expected a contested election.· The Tigers say they will not contest elections until there is peace.· With 223 House Republicans elected so far, the winner in a contested election would need 112 votes to win.· A total of 406 candidates contested the election and a 72 percent turnout was registered.· By early 1989 over 230 parties had registered and a total of 93 parties contested the May 1990 elections.· The AFL-CIO elected John Sweeney as president last October in the first contested election in its history.
· He was sensible not to contest the leadership as he commands less support across the party than Smith.
· The five other parties contesting the election failed to secure sufficient support to gain representation.· Half a dozen other parties also contested the elections without securing representation.· By early 1989 over 230 parties had registered and a total of 93 parties contested the May 1990 elections.· A total of 667 candidates fielded by 17 political parties contested the 225 directly elected seats in the 325-member Assembly.· Shevardnadze was expected to set about forming a coalition among some of the 36 parties which had contested parliamentary seats.· Details of election results A total of 1,047 candidates - 223 independents and 824 party representatives - contested the 1992 elections.· That is why the Tory Party always contests the Rhondda, for example.· The party did not contest the October 1989 general election.
· Candidates in December's local elections will be allowed to contest the seats only as independents, not on a party basis.· When legislative elections were held in 1990 under domestic and international pressure, the opposition party won 392 of 485 contested seats.· The vote for the Green Party, which did not contest the seat at the general election, was only 2 percent.· Shevardnadze was expected to set about forming a coalition among some of the 36 parties which had contested parliamentary seats.· In the 1984 Euro-election, when they contested only seventeen seats, they took 0.2 percent.· He plans to contest a seat on Cookstown district council in the May elections.· But it had decided to contest the seat next time, even before Mr Forsythe, 65, died suddenly in April.· Six candidates are contesting this sprawling seat, which stretches from the historic town of Stirling, north and west to Crianlarich.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1to say formally that you do not accept something or do not agree with it: - Third, after a terrific three-cornered fight, were David Hoskins and David James.
His brothers are contesting the will.2to compete for something or to try to win it: His wife is contesting a seat on the council.