Definition of competition

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Competition (n.) 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..

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Competitive :: Competitive (a.) Of or pertaining to competition; producing competition; competitory; as, a competitive examination..
Prize :: Prize (n.) A contest for a reward; competition.
Worst :: Worst (a.) To gain advantage over, in contest or competition; to get the better of; to defeat; to overthrow; to discomfit..
Rival :: Rival (a.) Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority; as, rival lovers; rival claims or pretensions..
Gain :: Gain (n.) To come off winner or victor in; to be successful in; to obtain by competition; as, to gain a battle; to gain a case at law; to gain a prize..
Mastery :: Mastery (n.) Superiority in war or competition; victory; triumph; preeminence.
Vie :: Vie (n.) A contest for superiority; competition; rivalry; strife; also, a challenge; a wager..
Protection :: Protection (n.) A theory, or a policy, of protecting the producers in a country from foreign competition in the home market by the imposition of such discriminating duties on goods of foreign production as will restrict or prevent their importation; -- opposed to free trade..
Vie :: Vie (v. t.) To do or produce in emulation, competition, or rivalry; to put in competition; to bandy..
Match :: Match (v.) Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
Winning :: Winning (n.) The act of obtaining something, as in a contest or by competition..
Winner :: Winner (n.) One who wins, or gains by success in competition, contest, or gaming..
Emulative :: Emulative (a.) Inclined to emulation; aspiring to competition; rivaling; as, an emulative person or effort..
Rivality :: Rivality (n.) Rivalry; competition.
Win :: Win (a.) To gain by superiority in competition or contest; to obtain by victory over competitors or rivals; as, to win the prize in a gate; to win money; to win a battle, or to win a country..
Victory :: Victory (n.) The defeat of an enemy in battle, or of an antagonist in any contest; a gaining of the superiority in any struggle or competition; conquest; triumph; -- the opposite of defeat..
Stake :: Stake (v. t.) To put at hazard upon the issue of competition, or upon a future contingency; to wager; to pledge..
Rivalry :: Rivalry (n.) The act of rivaling, or the state of being a rival; a competition..
Paragon :: Paragon (n.) Emulation; rivalry; competition.
Winning :: Winning (n.) The money, etc., gained by success in competition or contest, esp, in gambling; -- usually in the plural..
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