Usually means: Competing or striving for victory.
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  1. contending: Merriam-Webster
  2. contending: Collins English Dictionary
  3. contending: Vocabulary.com
  4. Contending, contending: Wordnik
  5. contending: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. contending: Wiktionary
  7. Contending, contending: Dictionary.com
  8. contending: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Contending: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. contending: Rhymezone
  11. Contending: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. contending: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. contending: FreeDictionary.org
  14. contending: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. contending: Legal dictionary

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  1. contending: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (contending)

▸ noun:  contention

Similar:
competitive, competitory, contention, contestation, arguing, certation, dispute, argumentation, contest, altercation, more...

Opposite:
yielding, acquiescent, submissive, compliant, agreeable

Types:
vying, competing, rivaling, clashing, conflicting, more...

Phrases:
contending for, still contending, more...

Adjectives:
long, worth, great, latter, young, former, good, daily, present, vain, several

Colors:
    red,     blue,     black,     white,     orange, more...



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Similar:
competitive, competitory, contention, contestation, arguing, certation, dispute, argumentation, contest, altercation, more...

Opposite:
yielding, acquiescent, submissive, compliant, agreeable

Types:
vying, competing, rivaling, clashing, conflicting, more...

Phrases:
contending for, still contending, more...

Adjectives:
long, worth, great, latter, young, former, good, daily, present, vain, several

Colors:
    red,     blue,     black,     white,     orange, more...



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