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Contestant
is always a great word to know.
So is malpractice. Does it mean:
| to deprive of the right of one to redeem property, especially on a mortgage when due, ownership of property then passing to the mortgagee |
| failure of a professional person, as a physician or lawyer, to render proper services through reprehensible ignorance or negligence |
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contestant
1660s, from Fr. contestant, prp. of contester (see contest). Noun meaning "one who contests" popularized in U.S. Civil War, when it was a journalist's term for the combatants on either side.
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