• Market sense is from 1840s (perhaps a back-formation from competition); athletics sense attested by 1857. Intransitive use is by 1974.
  • Competition Definition: Rivalry in business, as for customers or markets. ... Many times, the presence of competition increases the market for everyone.
  • Competition can occur between individuals that are members of the same species. This is called intraspecific competition.
  • Without competition, there would be endless monopolies, which would lead to every company being able to dictate the price of a good or service.
  • VERB + COMPETITION be up against, face | go into to go into competition with British Telecom | beat off, fight off to fight off competition from foreign firms.
  • Many translated example sentences containing "competition" – Russian-English dictionary and search engine for Russian translations.
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  • To be effective, competition requires companies to act independently of each other, and subject to the pressure exerted by their competitors.
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  • 43 synonyms for competition: rivalry, opposition, struggle, contest, contention, strife, one-upmanship, opposition, field, rivals, challengers, contest, event.