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US
/ˌkɑmpəˈtɪʃən/
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[ UK /kˌɒmpətˈɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /kˌɒmpətˈɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants
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the act of competing as for profit or a prize
the teams were in fierce contention for first place -
the contestant you hope to defeat
he had respect for his rivals
he wanted to know what the competition was doing -
a business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers
business competition can be fiendish at times
How To Use competition In A Sentence
- Also the competition (as it's not all that hard to play)'s prodigious, even at youth orchestra level, so, in addition to playing something which almost often simply sounds flutey, it's very hard to get anywhere.
- Inhuman hours, back-stabbing competition, abuse by superiors; it's all familiar now.
- Five miles and 1000 vertical feet had a marvelously dissuasive effect on the competition. The Road to New Waters
- This can entail harming companies that would be as efficient and as effective as Google is in these areas but for their limited access to consumers, creating a clear violation of Section 2 of the Sherman Act, of American law on monopolization, and on European competition law. Eric K. Clemons: One Click Away? Maybe and Maybe Not
- IHSB: The way to describe the first pro season for the most oddly named man alive (Allen Lorenz Pollock = A.J. Pollock?) is solid but unspectacular, which is disappointing given that the organization expected him to rip through Mid-A South Bend given that Midwest League Competition wasn't foreign to Pollock, given that Notre Dame plays an exhibition game against the SilverHawks at the beginning of each season. AZ Snakepit
- The post-contract duty involves duty of notification, duty of giving assistance, duty of keeping secret, duty of care and duty of no competition in the same industry and so on.
- In town for the competition is Phil's arch rival and inveterate cheat Ray and his lovely American daughter Christina.
- Competition between siblings for resources is widespread in the broods of altricial birds.
- Life isn't a competition. It's a journey. If you spend that journey always trying to impress others, to outdo others, you're wasting your journey.
- Cheerful competition between strongmen is harmless enough in times of peace. Times, Sunday Times
