0 someone who tries to win a competition, fight, or sports event from someone who has previously won it
1 someone who tries to win a competition and achieve a position, esp. in politics or sports, against someone who has won it and now has that position:
An aide to Buchanan said the conservative challenger for the presidency would hold a press conference tomorrow.
In pity of the challenger's youth I would fain dissuade him, but he will not be entreated.
So he leaped from his chariot, in his clanging armor, and advanced to meet the challenger.
The tournament being over, the Norman offered himself as general challenger at wrestling.
The two challengers having found him alone would not take any advantage of him, but agreed to fight him one after the other, like brave and generous knights.
You are bigger than I, and it would hardly be fair, replied Tom, surveying the bulky form of his challenger.
If so, the incumbent remains, and the challenger adapts another new platform.
His arguments on each of these issues were not, ultimately, concerned with the merits of one or another of the challengers' claims.
This result is somewhat misleading because of the inclusion of an interaction term containing the challenger party variable.
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