B1 a competition to do better than other people, usually in which prizes are given比賽;競賽
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The winner of tonight's talent contest will be decided by clapometer.
Both sides played well - it was a very even contest.
It's a real feather in our cap to be representing Britain in this contest.
She is one of the front-runners in the contest.
The organizers say it's a fair contest but who knows what goes on backstage?
an attempt, usually against difficulties, to win an election or to get power or control(爲赢得選舉或權力而進行的)爭取,爭奪
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The party leadership contest has let the genie of change out of the bottle.
After a bitter contest, he became party leader.
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.質疑;辯駁;駁斥
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