"enter the lists" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "enters the lists",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "entering the lists",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "entered the lists",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "entered the lists",
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        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
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          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              320,
              335
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1761, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XXV, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume III, London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley […], →OCLC, pages 132-133:",
          "text": "...my father, who was infinitely the better politician, and took the lead as far of my uncle Toby in the cabinet, as my uncle Toby took it of him in the field——convinced him, that if the king of Spain and the Emperor went together by the ears, England and France and Holland must, by force of their pre-engagements, all enter the lists too...",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To take part in a struggle or conflict."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "struggle",
          "struggle"
        ],
        [
          "conflict",
          "conflict"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, figuratively) To take part in a struggle or conflict."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "enter the lists"
}

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    {
      "form": "enters the lists",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "entering the lists",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "entered the lists",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "entered the lists",
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        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
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        "English verbs",
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          "text": "...my father, who was infinitely the better politician, and took the lead as far of my uncle Toby in the cabinet, as my uncle Toby took it of him in the field——convinced him, that if the king of Spain and the Emperor went together by the ears, England and France and Holland must, by force of their pre-engagements, all enter the lists too...",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To take part in a struggle or conflict."
      ],
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          "struggle",
          "struggle"
        ],
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          "conflict",
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        ]
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        "(UK, figuratively) To take part in a struggle or conflict."
      ],
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        "UK",
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  "word": "enter the lists"
}