0 past simple and past participle of contest
1 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:
2 to compete for something:
The miners were prepared to resort, if not to violence, then to acts of civil disobedience and incursions onto contested land.
Even in those states where primary reforms had been enacted, contested primaries did not always occur.
It is against this imposed hegemony (often criticised as white and imperialistic) that contextual theology arose as a contested discipline.
That welfare reform is badly needed cannot be seriously contested.
The tax system also offered the program an existing institutional implementation structure and less politically contested funding mechanism.
It is through communicational acts that prescriptive rules for action are propagated, affirmed, contested, or rejected.
In the transition from military dictatorship to (at least a procedurally) democratic regime, these countries conducted contested elections.
With nearly half of all constituencies contested, the election dramatically confirmed the extent to which divergent religious sensibilities provoked opposing political affiliations.
