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competition 音标拼音: [k ,ɑmpət'ɪʃən] n. C比赛; U竞争 C比赛; U竞争 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 [ synonym: { contest}, { competition}] 3: the act of competing as for profit or a prize; " the teams were in fierce contention for first place" [ synonym: { 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" [ synonym: { rival}, { challenger}, { competitor}, { competition}, { contender}] 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. [ 1913 Webster] Competition to the crown there is none, nor can be. -- Bacon. [ 1913 Webster] A portrait, with which one of Titian' s could not come in competition. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] There is no competition but for the second place. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 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}. [ 1913 Webster] 51 Moby Thesaurus words for " competition": 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
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