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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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           A portrait, with which one of Titian's could not come
           in competition.                          --Dryden.
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           There is no competition but for the second place.
                                                    --Dryden.
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           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}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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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