competition
NounWordNet 3.0
Noun (4)
- a business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers“business competition can be fiendish at times”
- an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestantsSynonyms: contest
- the act of competing as for profit or a prize“the teams were in fierce contention for first place”Synonyms: contentionrivalry
- the contestant you hope to defeat“he had respect for his rivals”“he wanted to know what the competition was doing”Synonyms: rivalchallengercompetitorcontender
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
Competition \Com`pe*ti"tion\, n. [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. [1913 Webster]
Competition to the crown there is none, nor can be. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
A portrait, with which one of Titian's could not come in competition. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
There is no competition but for the second place. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Where competition does not act at all there is complete monopoly. --A. T. Hadley.
Syn: Emulation; rivalry; rivalship; contest; struggle; contention; opposition; jealousy. See Emulation. [1913 Webster]