competition
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Noun (4)competitions
- a business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers“business competition can be fiendish at times”Type of business relationKinds price war, price competition
- an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestantsSynonyms: contestType of social eventKinds game, tournament, race, series, match, playoff, bout, spelling bee, championship, cliffhanger +6 more
- the act of competing as for profit or a prize“the teams were in fierce contention for first place”Synonyms: contentionrivalryOpposite cooperationType of group actionKinds contest
- the contestant you hope to defeat“he had respect for his rivals”“he wanted to know what the competition was doing”Synonyms: rivalchallengercompetitorcontenderType of contestantKinds champion, foe, runner-up, comer, front-runner, scratch, street fighter, finalist, tier, semifinalist +2 more
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Translations
Noun action of competing
- Spanish
- competición
- French
- compétition
- German
- Konkurrenz
- Italian
- competizione
- Portuguese
- competição
- Turkish
- rekabet
- Russian
- конкуре́нция konkuréncija
- Arabic
- مُنَافَسَة munāfasa
- Chinese
- 竞争 jìngzhēng
- Japanese
- 競争 kyōsō
23 more languages
- Dutch
- concurrentie
- Polish
- konkurencja
- Swedish
- konkurrens
- Greek
- ανταγωνισμός antagonismós
- Korean
- 경쟁 gyeongjaeng
- Indonesian
- persaingan
- Hungarian
- verseny
- Portuguese (PT)
- competição
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 比賽 bǐsài
- Albanian
- garë
- Catalan
- competició
- Czech
- konkurence
- Danish
- konkurrence
- Estonian
- võistlus
- Finnish
- kilpailu
- Hebrew
- תַּחֲרוּת takharút
- Kurdish
- pêşbazî
- Norwegian
- konkurranse
- Romanian
- concurență
- Scottish Gaelic
- co-fharpais
- Swahili
- ushindani
- Welsh
- cystadleuaeth
- Yiddish
- פֿאַרמעסט farmest
Noun contest for a prize or award
- Spanish
- competición
- French
- concours
- German
- Wettbewerb
- Italian
- competizione
- Portuguese
- competição
- Turkish
- yarışma
- Russian
- соревнова́ние sorevnovánije
- Arabic
- مُسَابَقَة musābaqa
- Chinese
- 比赛 bǐsài
- Japanese
- コンテスト kontesuto
27 more languages
- Dutch
- wedstrijd
- Polish
- konkurs
- Swedish
- tävling
- Greek
- διαγωνισμός diagonismós
- Korean
- 경기 gyeonggi
- Indonesian
- pertandingan
- Hungarian
- verseny
- Portuguese (PT)
- competição
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 比賽 bǐsài
- Albanian
- garë
- Catalan
- competició
- Czech
- soutěž
- Danish
- konkurrence
- Esperanto
- konkurso
- Estonian
- võistlus
- Finnish
- kilpailu
- Georgian
- შეჯიბრი šeǯibri
- Kurdish
- pêşbazî
- Latvian
- konkurss
- Lithuanian
- konkursas
- Malagasy
- fifaninanana
- Norwegian
- konkurranse
- Romanian
- concurs
- Scottish Gaelic
- co-fharpais
- Slovak
- súťaž
- Welsh
- cystadleuaeth
- Yiddish
- פֿאַרמעסט farmest
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: L. competition. See Compete.
The act of seeking, or endeavoring to gain, what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time; common strife for the same objects; strife for superiority; emulous contest; rivalry, as for approbation, for a prize, or as where two or more persons are engaged in the same business and each seeking patronage; — followed by for before the object sought, and with before the person or thing competed with.
Competition to the crown there is none, nor can be.— Francis, Baron Verulam Bacon
A portrait, with which one of Titian's could not come in competition.— John Dryden
There is no competition but for the second place.— John Dryden
Where competition does not act at all there is complete monopoly.— Arthur T. Hadley
Synonyms: Emulation; rivalry; rivalship; contest; struggle; contention; opposition; jealousy. See Emulation.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54