competition : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: competition	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for competition
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
competition n a business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers; "business competition can be fiendish at times" an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants Synonym(s): contest, competition the act of competing as for profit or a prize; "the teams were in fierce contention for first place" Synonym(s): competition, contention, rivalry Antonym(s): cooperation the contestant you hope to defeat; "he had respect for his rivals"; "he wanted to know what the competition was doing" Synonym(s): rival, challenger, competitor, competition, contender
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Competition \Com`peti"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}.