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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

COMPETITION, n.
1. The act of seeking, or endeavoring to gain, what another is endeavoring to gain, at the same time; rivalry; mutual strife for the same object; also, strife for superiority; as the competition of two candidates for an office, or of two poets for superior reputation.
2. A state of rivalship; a state of having equal claims.
A portrait, with which one of Titians could not come in competition.
3. Double claim; claim of more than one to the same thing; formerly with to, now with for.
Competition to the crown there is none nor can be.
There is no competition but for the second place.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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, competition]
3: the act of competing as for profit or a prize; "the teams were in fierce contention for first place" [syn: competition, 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, competition, contender]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Late Latin competition-, competitio, from Latin competere Date: 1579 1. the act or process of competing ; rivalry: as a. the effort of two or more parties acting independently to secure the business of a third party by offering the most favorable terms b. active demand by two or more organisms or kinds of organisms for some environmental resource in short supply 2. a contest between rivals; also one's competitors <faced tough competition>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 (often foll. by for) competing, esp. in an examination, in trade, etc. 2 an event or contest in which people compete. 3 a the people competing against a person. b the opposition they represent. Etymology: LL competitio rivalry (as COMPETITIVE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(competitions) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. Competition is a situation in which two or more people or groups are trying to get something which not everyone can have. There's been some fierce competition for the title... It was in these studios that young painters found the support and stimulating competition of peers. N-UNCOUNT: usu with supp, oft adj N, N prep 2. The competition is the person or people you are competing with. I have to change my approach, the competition is too good now. N-SING: usu the N 3. Competition is an activity involving two or more firms, in which each firm tries to get people to buy its own goods in preference to the other firms' goods. The deal would have reduced competition in the commuter-aircraft market... Clothing stores also face heavy competition from factory outlets. N-UNCOUNT: usu with supp, oft adj N, N prep 4. The competition is the goods that a rival organization is selling. The American aerospace industry has been challenged by some stiff competition. N-UNCOUNT 5. A competition is an event in which many people take part in order to find out who is best at a particular activity. ...a surfing competition... He will be banned from international competition for four years. N-VAR

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Rivalry, rivalship, emulation, contest, (for the same object).

Moby Thesaurus

antagonism, antipathy, bad blood, championship, clashing, collision, competitor, concours, conflict, contention, contest, contrariety, contrariness, corrival, cross-purposes, cutthroat competition, disaccord, dissension, emulation, enmity, event, fractiousness, friction, game, gamesmanship, hostility, inimicalness, jockeying, lifemanship, match, meet, meeting, negativeness, noncooperation, obstinacy, one-upmanship, oppugnancy, perverseness, recalcitrance, refractoriness, rencontre, repugnance, rivalry, strife, striving, struggle, tournament, tug-of-war, uncooperativeness, vying, warfare