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: --
3 to attempt to win an election or to get power or control: --
Our findings suggest that political discussion is infrequently public, modestly contested and sometimes marred by inequality.
In this period, there have been 352 races where incumbents have been contested and where data are available.
Electorally contested 'swing' regions tended to be the beneficiaries of national subsidies rather than others.
This proliferation is changing the playing field upon which democratic politics are contested.
By the early twentieth century, images of the wider setting and the fenced-off corners had become powerful tools in a contested citybuilding process.
When we are dealing with contested concepts, we cannot assume that readers share the same understanding.
Moreover, this approach must recognise more of the multiple outcomes and multiple perspectives present in the contested terrains of environmental crises.
With nearly half of all constituencies contested, the election dramatically confirmed the extent to which divergent religious sensibilities provoked opposing political affiliations.
