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in contention

in contention prepositional phrase: contending for a title or championship.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Contending for a title or championship.
    • But Chelsea, who left Didier Drogba on the bench as coach Carlo Ancelotti favoured Fernando Torres, staged a stirring fightback to move up to fourth and keep United in their sights on a night when nothing other than victory would have kept the Blues in contention.2011 March 1, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see in, contention.

in contention meaning in Malayalam

in contention in Malayalam

in competition, competing, contesting
മത്സരിക്കുന്ന, മത്സരത്തിലുള്ള, മത്സരത്തിൽ പങ്കെടുക്കുന്ന, മത്സരം നടത്തുന്ന, പോരാടുന്ന, ഏറ്റുമുട്ടുന്ന

Questions about in contention

What does in contention mean?
In contention means contending for a title or championship.
What is in contention in Malayalam?
In contention in Malayalam is മത്സരിക്കുന്ന, മത്സരത്തിലുള്ള, മത്സരത്തിൽ പങ്കെടുക്കുന്ന. See In contention meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is in contention?
In contention is a prepositional phrase.

Words near in contention in the dictionary

  1. in confidence
  2. in conjunction with
  3. in conscience
  4. in consequence
  5. in contempt
  6. in contention
  7. in contrast
  8. in contrast to
  9. in control
  10. in copula
  11. in countenance

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Adapted from Wiktionary: in contention (page history and authors); in contention (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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