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challenge English

Meaning challenge meaning

What does challenge mean?
Definitions in simple English

challenge Noun

— A challenge is something difficult that you want or have to do. Many churches overseas are struggling to meet the AIDS challenge. After 25 years in the same job, this move will allow me to take on new challenges. — A challenge is an offer to compete or fight. The president issued a challenge to his critics to appear in a public debate.

challenge Verb

— If you challenge somebody, you give them something very difficult to do. The job challenges his computer skills. — If you challenge somebody, you offer to compete or fight. He challenged me to a game of chess.

challenge

— verb take exception to She challenged his claims — verb issue a challenge to Fischer challenged Spassky to a match — noun a demanding or stimulating situation they reacted irrationally to the challenge of Russian power — noun a call to engage in a contest or fight — noun questioning a statement and demanding an explanation his challenge of the assumption that Japan is still our enemy — verb ask for identification The illegal immigrant was challenged by the border guard — verb raise a formal objection in a court of law — noun a demand by a sentry for a password or identification — noun a formal objection to the selection of a particular person as a juror

Synonyms challenge synonyms

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challenge English » English

dare dispute defy contest provoke defiance oppose impugn contradict throw down the gauntlet protest invite compete venture take exception tackle summons question problem offer attack test summon subpoena stimulate rival resist request provocation proposal gauntlet gainsay find fault entry doubt daring contend confront compete with challenging brave argue application antagonize writ withstand wage war wage ush urge

Topics challenge topics

What do people use challenge to talk about?
Social behavior Conflict

Fight
Social behavior Conflict Fight

Attack

Conjugation challenge conjugation

How do you conjugate challenge?

challenge · verb

Examples challenge examples

How do I use challenge in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Is this a challenge?
I was excited by the challenge.
We accept your challenge.
I accept the challenge.
The traveler stopped at the soldier's challenge.
This problem is a real challenge.
We're confident that you are up to the challenge of the new position.
It was a real challenge for us to go down the cliff on a rope.
Don't challenge someone who has nothing to lose.
I accept the challenge!
I accept your challenge.
If I knew what the picture was going to be like I wouldn't make it. It was almost like it was made already. The challenge is more about trying to make what you can't think of.
I enjoy the challenge of translating the untranslatable.
I like the challenge of translating the untranslatable.
Discussing beliefs will always present a challenge, since we all have our own idiosyncrasies.
Providing energy to the poor without destroying the planet any further is this century's biggest challenge.
I could hardly refuse Tom's challenge.
I took a chance and accepted his challenge.
One of the important differences between Japanese and Americans is that Japanese tend to choose a safe course in life, while Americans choose to explore and challenge life.
Finding the optimal for a numerical function can be an important challenge.
Even writing in one's native language is a challenge.
Is that a challenge?
Tom accepted the challenge.
I enjoy a challenge.
Tom was stupid enough to challenge Mary to a game of chess.

Movie subtitles

Beset by economic crises and by environmental fears, the West today is also waking up to a growing Eastern challenge to its political and military supremacy.
When the day comes that we pick up a transmission from an alien civilisation, we as a species, frankly, will face our greatest challenge ever, I think.
Finding the answer could be mankind's greatest challenge.
No one we ever fight is even a challenge anymore.
We challenge you to a pie-eating. Contest.
They are here to challenge you for the jade palace.
I'll accept that challenge. I remember.
I had to challenge her, for the good of the department.
The only thing Lorraine ever did was challenge the way you run this department.
But then you always did love a challenge.
Is that a challenge, Vitus?
Hear ye the challenge of the kings of Christendom.
But it's a challenge.
I challenge that.
Our troops just crushed the regular army of Abd el-Kader, who wanted to challenge us to a battle.
The harvest is our challenge!
It is the custom of my country to exchange cards after a challenge.
I challenge that. - Challenge that?
They now challenge all comers.
You challenge me to go?
Sorry to see you lose your money, but I can't let that challenge go unanswered. And 100.
Again, she found none to challenge her and George Amberson Minafer, the Major's one grandchild, was a princely terror.
You see, when scientists find a waste in nature's gifts, they accept that as a challenge.
Who'll be the first to challenge the Killer to one round of exhibition boxing, Marquis of Queensbury rules?
Now i challenge Mr. Tolliver to produce this evidence.
I challenge Mr. Tolliver himself to dive to that sunken hull. to bring up the proof he claims is there.
Professor, I challenge you to make an experiment.
Then why do you want to challenge him?
I'll accept that challenge.
Mr. Kidley, I challenge you.
Sorry to see you lose your money, but I can't let that challenge go unanswered.
He stirs the heart like a challenge.
I picked a horse that could win the Virginia Challenge Cup, hmm?
I'm going to hand the Virginia Challenge Cup to my bride-to-be.
The Virginia Challenge Cup.
The horses are now on the track for the 45th running of the historic Virginia Challenge Cup.
This year's favorite is Lady Julia, ridden by Mr. Lance Gale of Clear Valley Farm, which has had entries in every Challenge Cup Race.
There's your Virginia Challenge Cup.
The Virginia Challenge Cup, which our grand Lady Julia brought us, is something Clear Valley has been wanting for a long time.
The other girls said I was a fool not to challenge him.

News and current affairs

First, we must make certain that the relevant legislation to meet the challenge of terrorism is strictly temporary.
Meeting this imperative entails both an enormous technological challenge and an opportunity to redefine the meaning of modernity.
This challenge, however, is very complex because deleveraging and rebalancing cannot be completed overnight.
Both factors challenge us to define, in the longer term, more sustainable patterns of production and consumption.
Governments, civil society, and the private sector must rise to the challenge, cooperating to find and implement creative solutions.
The challenge of the post-2015 development agenda lies in finding creative solutions to support prosperity, equality, and sustainability.
But the challenge is to provide an alternative set of policy guidelines for promoting development, without falling into the trap of promulgating yet another impractical blueprint, supposedly right for all countries at all times.
Learning what a country is (or can be) good at producing is a key challenge of economic development.
For globalization is both a challenge and an opportunity.
Each of us senses this challenge almost daily.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is taking on this unprecedented challenge from his unique position at the crossroads of global politics and society.
Sustainable development is a generational challenge, not a short-term task.
But the long-term nature of this challenge must not lull us into inaction.
As an anti-status quo power, Iran is not pursuing nuclear capabilities in order to destroy Israel, but to gain prestige and influence in a hostile environment and as a shield for its challenge to the regional order.
The second key challenge that we will face during our European presidency is that of Russia.
The real challenge of global warming, therefore, lies in tackling its impact on the Third World.
If it can, it will be better able to respond not only to the Russian challenge, but also to many of the other challenges that characterize today's rapidly shifting global environment.
Navigating this interplay between law and politics is perhaps the ICC's greatest challenge.
At a time when we should be scaling up to meet the AIDS challenge, we are dialing back.
In much of Africa, the challenge for journalists, editors, and readers goes beyond freedom of the press, and involves its very survival.
Financing adaptation to climate will be a formidable challenge, particularly as it involves additional costs above traditional development assistance - at a time when foreign-aid budgets are under pressure.
Iran's growing regional influence does not stem from its military expenditures, which are far lower than those of its enemies, but from its challenge to America and Israel through an astute use of soft power.
All of these motivations critically challenge US global diplomatic primacy.

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