Please help me out with the verb 'to challenge' and its different meanings

English as a Second Language English Vocabulary, Grammar and Idioms
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The verb ‘to challenge’ has more than one meaning, one of them is, for example:

  • He challenged me to a game of chess. (That is very clear to me).
  • It is of course the right and duty of the opposition to challenge the position of Her Majesty’s government of the day. (I think this means asking and disputing the government’s decisions they’ve made about certain issues.)
  • Children challenge their parents’ authority far more than the did in the past (I think this means that children are more assertive nowadays than in the past, for instance during Victorian times, children should be seen, but not heard, but since then times have changed a lot, not only in Belgium and Britain, but all over the world.

Are my interpretations correct? Would you please have a look at it?

@EnglishwithLiz , @Alan, @Anglophile, @NearlyNapping, @EnglishwithLiz

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I think your interpretation of children’s attitude should be acceptable. From that point of view, we may discern that the verb ‘challenge’ can also mean ‘question, criticize, resist, disapprove, defy, disobey’ etc.
Children challenge their parents when they do not like what is being imposed on them.

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Good examples of the use of’challenge’. It might be useful to add another example of its use in everyday conversation - imagine you are in a building which requires a pass and this is your fist time and so you are nervous that someone will stop you and ask why you are there. Your friend will say - If you are challenged, just show rhem the pass I gave you.

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Thank you for your useful answer.

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Thank you Alan.

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