noun[mass noun] formal
The action or process of disputing or arguing: ideological contestation over social policy in the European Union [count noun]: a self-conscious contestation of the government
More example sentences
- Hall deals with the process of contestation and what is required to replace embedded ideas, established interests and institutions.
- And these representations changed appreciably over the centuries, through a process of both contestation and assimilation.
- Democratic politics is bound to the terrain of dispute and contestation.
Definition of contestation in:
- The US English dictionary