Synonyms:
competition
Meaning: a business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers; "business competition can be fiendish at times"
Synonyms:
contest, competition
Meaning: an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants
Synonyms:
competition, contention, rivalry
Meaning: the act of competing as for profit or a prize; "the teams were in fierce contention for first place"
Usage examples
No competition worth speaking of--no pressure.
Contract rent is based on economic rent and tends to conform to it whenever there is competition.
Yes, said Prince Albert, and let us also invite competition from foreign countries on equal terms with native products.
Physically they'll live on, as just one more dog-eat-dog planet with an A-bomb for any of the competition who drop behind."
How many small proprietors and manufacturers have not been ruined by large ones through chicanery, law-suits, and competition?
In the latter respect he offered no competition, and it was easy to see that his natural powers had never been cultivated by education.
But as this excessive competition usually is for the very purpose of forcing the combination, this explanation is a begging of the question.
A machine is "an iron man," it has been said, and comes into competition with other men to lower their wages by outworking and underbidding them.
Large factories may or may not have monopoly power; as factories grow in size, competition among them often becomes more, not less, complete and severe.
At the former price he could have supplied the market and earned a liberal profit on his investment, but at $3.50 per ton he was left without a reasonable chance of competition.