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noun, a demanding or stimulating situation, career, object, etc
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challenge
- 1) verb, to invite or summon (someone to do something, esp to take part in a contest)
- 2) verb, to call (something) into question; dispute
- 3) verb, to make demands on; stimulate
- 4) verb, to order (a person) to halt and be identified or to give a password
- 5) verb, law to make formal objection to (a juror or jury)
- 6) verb, to lay claim to (attention, etc)
- 7) verb, hunting (of a hound) to cry out on first encountering the scent of a quarry
- 8) verb, to inject (an experimental animal immunized with a test substance) with disease microorganisms to test for immunity to the disease
- 9) noun, a call to engage in a fight, argument, or contest
- 10) noun, a questioning of a statement or fact; a demand for justification or explanation
- 11) noun, a demanding or stimulating situation, career, object, etc
- 12) noun, a demand by a sentry, watchman, etc, for identification or a password
- 13) noun, an assertion that a person is not entitled to vote or that a vote is invalid
- 14) noun, law a formal objection to a person selected to serve on a jury (challenge to the polls) or to the whole body of jurors (challenge to the array)
Etymology
C13: from Old French chalenge, from Latin calumnia calumny
Collins English Electronic Dictionary - Digital Edition: 2008 © HarperCollins Publishers 2008
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dare, provocation, wero (N.Z.), test, trial, opposition, confrontation, defiance, ultimatum, face-off (slang), dispute, question, tackle, confront, defy, impugn, invite, provoke, summon, call out, try, tax, interrogate, accost
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