Hypertext Webster Gateway: "competition"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

Competition to the crown there is none, nor can be.
--Bacon.

A portrait, with which one of Titian's could not come
in competition. --Dryden.

There is no competition but for the second place.
--Dryden.

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}.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

competition
n 1: a business relation in which two parties compete to gain
customers; "business competition can be fiendish at
times"
2: an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or
more contestants [syn: {contest}]
3: the act of competing as for profit or a prize: "the teams
were in fierce contention for first place" [syn: {contention},
{rivalry}] [ant: {cooperation}]
4: the contestant you hope to defeat; "he had respect for his
rivals"; "he wanted to know what the competition was
doing" [syn: {rival}, {challenger}, {competitor}, {contender}]


Additional Hypertext Webster Gateway Lookup

Enter word here:
Exact Approx


dict.stokkie.net
Gateway by dict@stokkie.net
stock only wrote the gateway and does not have any control over the contents; see the Webster Gateway FAQ, and also the Back-end/database links and credits.