no contest
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.52 in modern English
Meaning
noun
A type of plea in a criminal proceeding where the defendant neither admits nor denies guilt but consents to the imposition of punishment as if guilty.
American usage; Countable; Uncountable
noun
A clause in a will that imposes a penalty of forfeiture against any beneficiary who challenges the will.
American usage; Countable; Uncountable
noun
The result of a boxing bout, promoted as an exhibition when the sport of boxing was illegal, when a knockout did not occur.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A bout that the referee cancels early, either due to a serious injury early in the fight or due to a lack of action
Countable; Uncountable
intj
Used to indicate that a competition or comparison is one-sided and so its outcome is too obvious to be interesting.
Informal
Example Sentences
- "No contest clauses are valid in California and are favored by the public policies of discouraging litigation and giving effect to the settlor's expressed purposes."
- "In four wards there were no contests."
- "I'll take a Porsche, no contest!"
- "To all the things DVD does better than the videocassette, add the boxed set. In looks alone there is no contest."
Etymology
Usage
- American usage
- Countable
- Uncountable
- Informal