beauty contest
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English
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Noun
[edit]beauty contest (plural beauty contests)
- A competition in which participants compete for a determination that one is the most physically attractive.
- Synonym: beauty pageant
- 2019 December 4, Pip Dunn, “Class 70s: a decade of disappointment?”, in Rail, page 65:
- The locomotives were labelled 'ugly', 'unsightly' and 'industrial', as their cab fronts were a mass of slats, grooves and blocks (despite the fact that, of course, locomotives are for work - it's not a beauty contest).
- (business) A tender in which bidders are ranked according to some (known or secret) criteria.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]beauty pageant — see beauty pageant
References
[edit]- (business tender): Auctions and Beauty Contests: A Policy Perspective
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English beauty contest.
Noun
[edit]beauty contest m (invariable)
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