Synonym: challenger, competitor, contender, contention, contest, rival, rivalry. Similar words: competitor, compensation, practitioner, composition, compete, constitutional convention, institution, edition. Meaning: [‚kɒmpɪ'tɪʃn] 
n. 1. a business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers 2. an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants 3. the act of competing as for profit or a prize 4. the contestant you hope to defeat.
n. 1. a business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers 2. an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants 3. the act of competing as for profit or a prize 4. the contestant you hope to defeat. 
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181) He belongs to the school of thought that says that competition can be very stimulating for children.
182) He waltzed through the first two rounds of the competition.
183) The latest sales figures show that we're streets ahead of the competition.
184) Keep a pen and paper to hand for details of this week's competition.
185) Jones is certain to win the race; there's just no competition.
186) No purchase is necessary for you to enter this competition.
187) He was forced to withdraw from the competition because of injury.
188) We'll never hear the last of it if they win that competition.
189) The competition became so keen that many of smaller companies were frozen out.
190) Unfortunately, he was never able to reproduce this level of performance in a competition.
191) We were so pleased when our team got through to the last part of the competition.
192) The winner of the competition will be announced this afternoon.
193) It would have been storybook stuff if he had won the competition.
194) If competition is the best way to achieve it, then, fine.
195) The aim of the competition is to match the quote to the person who said it.
196) The annual competition has encouraged the emergence of several talented young musicians.
197) The competition is open to children between six and twelve years of age.
198) Some lucky person will win more than $1 000 000 in the competition.
199) Win the house of your dreams in our fantastic competition!
200) Their football team bowed out of the competition with unknown reasons.
201) England has to win tonight's qualifying match to go through to the next round of the competition.
202) He waited for the announcement of the result of the competition with bated breath.
203) Advertising may be used to score points off the competition.
204) If you leave the competition now,everyone will think you've flung in the towel.
205) There are £25 000 worth of prizes up for grabs in our competition!
206) The company had monopolized the photography market for so many decades that they didn't worry about competition from other companies.
206) Sentencedict.com is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find nice sentences for a large number of words.
207) We'll give you full details of how to enter our competition later.
208) He has retired from competition now, but he had his day when he won the all-England championship.
209) The competition between the two companies is hotting up at last.
210) The gas companies are having to lay off staff in the face of stiff competition from oil.
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