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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
competitor
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
▪ The next biggest competitor, Royal, charges no commission.
▪ Home Depot is a big competitor.
close
▪ But our economy is still over twice as large as our closest competitor.
▪ Verio currently operates nearly three times as many business Web sites as its closest competitor.
▪ And indeed, the closest competitor a creature is ever likely to meet is a member of its own species.
▪ The closest competitor the whole day was Arpaio, who earlier typed 44 words per minute.
direct
▪ Only businesses that are direct competitors are excluded.
▪ Local office suppliers, however, are not too worried because the company is not seen as a direct competitor.
▪ For example, the Vines operating system from Banyan, a direct competitor of Netware, is based on Unix.
▪ In particular the company is hoping to position TeamWorks Office as a direct competitor to Lotus Notes.
▪ In a sense, we do not feel we have any direct competitor in Paris.
▪ Hence the mink is not so much a threat to the muskrat population as a direct competitor with muskrat trappers.
foreign
▪ Once again, we shall be in the hands of our foreign competitors.
▪ They do not control the entire market and are not free from the threat of entry from new firms or foreign competitors.
▪ Latest export statistics show Britain's grain trade with foreign competitors drastically reduced - while imports are rising.
▪ In the meantime, foreign competitors are moving ahead of us.
international
▪ The United States also became a still more potent international competitor in the 1980S - especially in fields such as computers.
▪ He is a former international competitor and continues to coach athletes and teams to international level in a number of sports.
main
▪ Exports have increased by 66 percent since 1981, better than any of our six main competitors, it points out.
▪ Q: Who is your main competitor now?
▪ It will now be using the services of Askews, formerly one of its main competitors.
▪ It is the first version of the Microsoft browser compatible with the plug-ins of its main competitor, Netscape.
▪ Tiphook had paid £7.7 million for a 9.9 percent slice of its main competitor.
▪ Today, on most measures, it's one of the top two, Siemens being the main competitor.
▪ Why then, people wonder, is inflation so much higher here than in our main competitor countries?
▪ Its members would effectively have to buy milk supplies from their main competitor.
major
▪ But Britain still has a huge gap to close on her major competitors.
▪ If the merger goes through, the only other major competitor to the combined company would be Burlington Northern Santa Fe.
▪ Some of our major competitors actually forecast that they will exceed bar sales by the early 1990s.
▪ How does the level of investment in this country compare with that of our major competitors?
▪ The spearhead of their sales drive was cooking and water heating, in which their major competitors were the gas boards.
▪ Price-slashing by Allied and major competitors has wrecked margins, admits boss Tony Hales.
▪ The report would normally comment on the structure of the sector, the sector output, the major competitors and market shares.
near
▪ The nearest competitor service was transport information and reservations, at 53%.
▪ The nearest competitor to the time wine.
▪ Is the world leader in sales of gin, selling 50% more than its nearest world gin competitor.
new
▪ But the risks from new competitors and from changing technology or market demand will also be greater.
▪ Steel's ability to grow. New competitors quickly diminished the company's market dominance.
▪ As a result profitability was reduced and this was aggravated by the arrival of a number of new competitors.
▪ The same could happen in San Diego, but even the new competitors are warning against expecting a big price drop.
▪ Sometimes we have competitors who disappear, but quickly there are new competitors who rise up in their place.
▪ Unbranded generics spawned new competitors, including several supermarket chains that also sold Clean Keeper products.
▪ They want to give new competitors more of a chance, even if it means intervening in the market to do so.
▪ Its new competitor, the SyQuest SyJet, stores up to 1. 5 gigabytes of data.
other
▪ Only one of 100 other competitors had had any trouble at the fence.
▪ On the other hand, the fact that initially g exceeded r would attract other competitors into the industry.
▪ Targeting particular sectors sounds fine, but other strong competitors may already be targeting the very same areas.
▪ While not in a heat Jan would be out encouraging the other competitors.
▪ Whilst doing this you need to avoid the other competitors.
▪ Like other competitors, he also produced a written explanation, but in Scott's case this was a thirty-page printed booklet.
▪ No other competitor in any sport has been as consistently good or as unfailingly good natured.
▪ Inpart, it should be said, this is because there aren't many other competitors.
potential
▪ It seems that on receipt of the documents, potential competitors were able to consider the implications and appreciate the pit-falls.
▪ Each firmlet offers a single offering to customers, an offering which has a unique set of potential customers and competitors.
▪ Competition Details about actual and potential competitors and their operations. 2.
▪ If they did fulfil it, surely they must be potential rivals, competitors even in the guise of colleagues.
small
▪ The rule also sets a stiff economic hurdle for smaller competitors.
▪ To protect their investment in the trials, the firms do not make the results available to small would-be competitors.
▪ The process was not unlike that whereby, today, a large corporation might swallow up its smaller competitors.
▪ They often acquired smaller competitors. 2.
▪ It's much smaller than its competitors in Bath or Cheltenham, and it's far less reliable than them.
▪ A small number of competitors at those Games were found to have smoked marijuana recently.
strong
▪ That said, Home Run was a strong competitor in the market, with a quirky eye.
▪ To be sure, Kirin is financially stronger than its competitors.
▪ Targeting particular sectors sounds fine, but other strong competitors may already be targeting the very same areas.
▪ Five ladies played for the seven-strong county team, and in inter-club matches Henley ladies were, not surprisingly, strong competitors.
successful
▪ The successful competitor would also receive the usual 5 percent fees on the cost of the work.
▪ One of the most successful competitors of the past decade has been Valerie Hinson, a retired business analyst from Tennessee.
▪ He's Britain's most successful competitor and arguably our greatest champion.
■ VERB
beat
▪ This new capitalism is a cut-throat enterprise: to stay in business you must not only compete with but beat your competitors.
compare
▪ At 354 grams, it compares favourably with its competitors which lurch towards the 400 mark.
▪ How effective are our advertising campaigns compared with our competitors?
face
▪ Waste Management leads, but faces several sizeable competitors.
▪ It faced three groupings of competitors across the world and members of each grouping were reorganizing.
▪ But he faces some powerful competitors.
keep
▪ The larger a firm becomes the more cost efficient it can become and hence prices can be kept below those competitors.
▪ It hatched certain fire-triggered seeds, it eliminated intruding tree saplings, it kept the fire-intolerant urban competitors down.
▪ And, as the reborn Terminal 3 shows, to keep them ahead of their competitors.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Each of these competitors has their eye on the £50,000 prize money.
▪ If we're going to succeed, we'll have to provide something that our competitors don't.
▪ One of the competitors hurt her leg during the race.
▪ The competitors in the 100m sprint are being asked to take their places at the start.
▪ The competitors tonight come from all over the world.
▪ Their major competitors are IBM and Sun Microsystems.
▪ Twenty-seven competitors from around the country will take part in Sunday's monster truck rally.
▪ Two of the competitors failed to show up for the race.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All competitors in Phoenix, public and private, were using trucks that held 25 cubic yards of garbage.
▪ But the company sees state regulatory rules shaping up unfavorably for it, as a would-be competitor for residential customers.
▪ On the other hand, coworkers can also be competitors.
▪ The airline had withstood the predatory pricing moves of its competitors, and overcome its early loss.
▪ The nearest competitor service was transport information and reservations, at 53%.
▪ We are not prepared for it, whereas our competitors are.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Competitor

Competitor \Com*pet"i*tor\, n. [L.: cf. F. comp['e]titeur.]

  1. One who seeks what another seeks, or claims what another claims; one who competes; a rival.

    And can not brook competitors in love.
    --Shak.

  2. An associate; a confederate. [Obs.]

    Every hour more competitors Flock to their aid, and still their power increaseth.
    --Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
competitor

1530s, from Middle French compétiteur (16c.), or directly from Latin competitor "rival," agent noun from competere (see compete).

Wiktionary
competitor

n. 1 A person or organization against whom one is compete. 2 A participant in a competition, especially in athletics.

WordNet
competitor

n. the contestant you hope to defeat; "he had respect for his rivals"; "he wanted to know what the competition was doing" [syn: rival, challenger, competition, contender]

Usage examples of "competitor".

Walker, one of the ablest men ever born on the soil so productive of good and able men, was proposed as my competitor.

Forcing himself from the luxury of the palace, he appeared in arms at the head of his legions, and advanced beyond the Po to encounter his competitor.

Their collaborators and sharp competitors in the great and noble work of planting the gospel and the church in old and neglected fields at the South, and carrying them westward to the continually advancing frontier of population, were to be found in the multiplying army of the Methodist itinerants and local exhorters, whose theology, enjoined upon them by their commission, was the Arminianism of John Wesley.

In respect to industrial matters, the hampered artizans, watched and cloistered in their country, cease to perfect their arts and allow foreign competitors to surpass them in processes and in furnishing supplies to the world.

When it is considered that many amateur writers have been discouraged from becoming competitors, and that few, if any, of the professional authors can afford to write for nothing, and, of course, have not been candidates for the honorary prize at Drury Lane, we may confidently pronounce that, as far as regards NUMBER, the present is undoubtedly the Augustan age of English poetry.

His competitors like Harcourt Biosciences were helpless, buried by an avalanche of new government restrictions on their research.

Even when confronted with competitors in one of its market cities, White Castle never chose to challenge ownership of the product patent, essentially conceding that the concept of the hamburger sandwich and the approach of selling in volume on a carryout basis were in the public domain.

Ino, more of a born competitor, swam races with Claus and gambled - lightly - with him.

Miss Arkansas competitors and former teammates on the Dixieland High School Drill Team.

At the same time, consignment and mail-order houses appeared in Canada for the first time, buying and selling furs on commission, allowing competitors quick and simple entry into the trade.

Even in so extreme a case as this, if the supply of insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale.

We were working on an interbank loan of nine and a half million for five days to a competitor, a matter of little more than a few telephone calls and a promise.

So did the third competitor, the tall hawk-faced forester Rizlail of Megenthorp, who, like Prestimion, had learned the art of bowmanship from the famed Earl Kamba of Mazadone.

If he turned out to be a spy for a competitor or working for the Confederation, Lowboy would take care of him.

A larger proportion of squirrels of the new, better adapted variety would survive every year, and the intermediate links would die in the course of time, without having been starved out by Malthusian competitors.