Usually means: Competitions to win prizes, recognition.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word contests:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. contests: Merriam-Webster
  2. contests: Collins English Dictionary
  3. contests: Vocabulary.com
  4. Contest's, Contests, contest's, contests: Wordnik
  5. contests: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. contests: Wiktionary
  7. contests: Dictionary.com
  8. contests: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. contests: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. contests: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. contests: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. contests: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Contests: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

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Definitions from Wiktionary (contest)

noun:  (uncountable) Controversy; debate.
noun:  (uncountable) Struggle for superiority; combat.
noun:  (countable) A competition.
verb:  (intransitive) To contend.
verb:  (transitive) To call into question; to oppose.
verb:  (transitive) To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend.
verb:  (law) To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist, as a claim, by course of law.
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