Synonym: challenger, competition, contender, rival. Similar words: compete, compel, compelling, editor, compensate for, compensation, visitor, monitor. Meaning: [kəm'petɪtə] n. the contestant you hope to defeat.
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31 It would even, he added, be interested in the odd competitor to increase its customer base.
32 And indeed, the closest competitor a creature is ever likely to meet is a member of its own species.
33 He is a former international competitor and continues to coach athletes and teams to international level in a number of sports.
34 A dominant party can eventually lose support and become a competitor in a multiparty system.
35 In particular the company is hoping to position TeamWorks Office as a direct competitor to Lotus Notes.
36 The United States also became a still more potent international competitor in the 1980S - especially in fields such as computers.
37 We once did some work with a software firm whose competitor had introduced a wildly successful new home finance program.
38 If you are a good competitor, you take on all comers.
39 Is the world leader in sales of gin, selling 50% more than its nearest world gin competitor.
40 While Guy stepped off, hardly out of breath, his competitor collapsed on the ground in exhaustion.
41 Or, analysts say, it could be a cheap shot by an employee at an Apple competitor.
42 They may equally, as I did, hold a second current account with a competitor.
43 The feeling in the class-room is one of the teacher as partner, as collaborator, net as manager or competitor.
44 But the company sees state regulatory rules shaping up unfavorably for it[sentencedict.com], as a would-be competitor for residential customers.
45 Larry couldn't disguise his satisfaction at seeing his competitor go out of business.
46 This made Fearnley very defensive about his own business, and usually happy to dish the dirt about his aggressive competitor.
47 No other competitor in any sport has been as consistently good or as unfailingly good natured.
48 He's Britain's most successful competitor and arguably our greatest champion.
49 However, anarchism remained an influential competitor to the Communist movement until well into the late 1920s.
50 Its new competitor, the SyQuest SyJet, stores up to 1. 5 gigabytes of data.
51 The successful competitor would also receive the usual 5 percent fees on the cost of the work.
52 The nearest competitor service was transport information and reservations,(http://sentencedict.com/competitor.html) at 53%.
53 If the merger goes through, the only other major competitor to the combined company would be Burlington Northern Santa Fe.
54 In addition John Parrott, at 36, will now be the oldest competitor in the 32-man televised phase.
55 Local office suppliers, however, are not too worried because the company is not seen as a direct competitor.
56 The battle lines are not at all clear: a competitor may also be an alliance partner.
57 The closest competitor the whole day was Arpaio, who earlier typed 44 words per minute.
58 This republican religion, as we shall see, was sometimes a political ally but also an ideological competitor.
59 Many large-scale competitor data bases, especially those on mainframes, have fallen into disuse.
60 In a sense, we do not feel we have any direct competitor in Paris.
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