challenge

/ˈt͡ʃæl.ɪnd͡ʒ/

noun 5verb 5

Collocations

(noun.) sth new and difficult

ADJ

big, considerable, enormous, great, huge, radical, real, serious, significant, strong | difficult, tough | major, main | fresh, new | exciting, interesting

economic, environmental, intellectual, political, technical, technological

The company faces a significant environmental challenge in reducing its plastic packaging.

VERB + CHALLENGE

be, pose, present

face, meet, respond to, rise to, take on/up

She decided to take on the challenge of learning to speak French fluently within one year.

CHALLENGE + VERB

face sb

Young entrepreneurs face significant challenges when starting their first business.

(noun.) that shows that sb refuses to accept sth

ADJ

serious | direct | effective | legal

VERB + CHALLENGE

be, present, represent

The new safety rules present a challenge for the factory workers.

PREP

~ to

The new safety rules faced a challenge to their implementation from several factory managers.

(noun.) invitation to compete

ADJ

leadership, title

She worked hard to prepare for her leadership challenge in the new role.

VERB + CHALLENGE

issue, mount

Several opposition groups decided to issue a challenge to the government's new policy.

accept, take up

She decided to take up the challenge of learning to cook Italian food.

beat off, fight off

The company managed to beat off the challenge from its competitors and remained the market leader.

PREP

~ from

The team faced a tough challenge from their rivals in the championship match.

(verb.) question whether sth is right/true

ADV

directly

The young athlete directly challenged the referee's decision about the penalty.

seriously

effectively

His new research effectively challenges the theory that scientists have accepted for decades.

successfully

The new safety regulations were successfully challenged by several companies last month.

PREP

I challenged my friend on why she always arrives late to our meetings.

(verb.) invite sb to compete, argue, etc.

ADV

seriously

The new evidence seriously challenged what scientists had believed about the disease.

successfully, unsuccessfully

PREP

for

The young athlete trained hard because she wanted to challenge for the national title next year.

I challenged my friend to a game of chess after school yesterday.

Definitions

noun

A confrontation; a dare.

Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?

A confrontation; a dare.

a challenge to the king's authority

For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.

A confrontation; a dare.

Argentine midfielder Jonas Gutierrez added a superb second when he surged past four challenges to fire in low.

A confrontation; a dare.

The somewhat-shattered San Francisco also managed to make it out, although not before she'd come within seconds of being blown out of the water by Helena, as the two had lost contact in the dark and the flagship had loomed back out of the murk with no one and nothing available to answer the light cruiser's challenge - the radio, the whistle, the signal lights, the flags, et cetera, had all been destroyed. Luckily, one of the few surviving signalmen found a small handheld signal light and managed to blink out the ship's hull number.

verb

To invite (someone) to take part in a competition.

We challenged the boys next door to a game of football.

By this I challenge him to single fight.

To dare (someone).

[...] For I challenge any Man to make any pretence to Power by Right of Fatherhood, either intelligible or poſſible in any one, otherwiſe, then either as Adams heir, or as Progenitor over his own deſcendants, naturally ſprung from him.

To dispute (something); to contest.

to challenge the accuracy of a statement or of a quotation

In the April 2020 Roade fatality, the worker who died "was reputedly in the habit of walking on the line when he didn't need to". Tragically, no one challenged him about it.

To call something into question or dispute.

New information challenged old hypotheses.

To make a formal objection to a juror.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

verb — take exception to

dispute
gainsay

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

rise to the challenge

To show resolve or effectiveness in dealing with a difficulty.

Example Bank

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a challenge to the king's authority

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For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.

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We challenged the boys next door to a game of football.

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By this I challenge him to single fight.

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