2 definitions found
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 1.6 [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}]
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