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battle, contest, race, rivalry, strife, striving, struggle, tug of war, war, warfare, meet, contestant

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com⋅pe⋅ti⋅tion

[kom-pi-tish-uh

–noun

1.	the act of competing; rivalry for supremacy, a prize, etc.: The competition between the two teams was bitter.

2.	a contest for some prize, honor, or advantage: Both girls entered the competition.

3.	the rivalry offered by a competitor: The small merchant gets powerful competition from the chain stores.

4.	a competitor or competitors: What is your competition offering?

5.	Sociology. rivalry between two or more persons or groups for an object desired in common, usually resulting in a victor and a loser but not necessarily involving the destruction of the latter.

6.	Ecology. the struggle among organisms, both of the same and of different species, for food, space, and other vital requirements.

Origin:
1595–1605; < LL competītiōn- (s. of competītiō), equiv. to competīt(us) (ptp. of competere to meet, come together) + -iōn- -ion; sense influenced by competitor

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Language Translation for : Competition

Spanish:

competición,

German:

der Wettkampf,

Japanese:

競争

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com·pe·ti·tion (kŏm'pĭ-tĭsh'ən) Pronunciation Key
n.

The act of competing, as for profit or a prize; rivalry.
A test of skill or ability; a contest: a skating competition.
Rivalry between two or more businesses striving for the same customer or market.
A competitor: The competition has cornered the market.
Ecology The simultaneous demand by two or more organisms for limited environmental resources, such as nutrients, living space, or light.

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competition
noun
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" [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]

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competition (kŏm'pĭ-tĭsh'ən) Pronunciation Key

The simultaneous demand by two or more organisms for limited environmental resources, such as nutrients, living space, or light.

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competition com·pe·ti·tion (kŏm'pĭ-tĭsh'ən)
n.

The process by which the activity or presence of one substance interferes with or suppresses the activity of another substance with similar affinities, as of antigens.
The simultaneous demand by two or more organisms for limited environmental resources.

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.