[ US /kəmˈpit/ ]
[ UK /kəmpˈiːt/ ]
VERB
  1. compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others
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How To Use compete In A Sentence

  • Bounties were paid right across a banking sector whose incompetence threw thousands of innocents into jeopardy. Times, Sunday Times
  • But freshman composition, like the writing test, assumed a level of competency that few of these students had attained.
  • But freshman composition, like the writing test, assumed a level of competency that few of these students had attained.
  • We ask for a level playing field when we compete with foreign companies.
  • They kicked out our competent people and posted nincompoops. Times, Sunday Times
  • This is not by any means the only instance of financial incompetence on the part of our various Scottish ancestors, nor indeed of the tendency to resort to violence, and those patterns offer surprisingly little reassurance from the genetic standpoint. Archive 2009-03-01
  • This all plays to the core competence of business attorneys.
  • That Constellation would not sign a power purchase agreement for its own reactor is a stunning admission that atomic energy cannot compete with natural gas or renewables. Harvey Wasserman: Nuke "Renaissance" Leaps off Calvert Cliffs
  • ‘I only wish farmers could be fully compensated for the incompetence, inefficiency and neglect of the Department over which Mrs Beckett presides,’ he said.
  • Apart from intense competition in the retail savings market, banks and building societies also compete strongly in the market for house finance.
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