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Answer for the clue "The act of competing as for profit or a prize ", 11 letters:
competition

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Competition is any rivalry between two or more parties. Competition may also refer to: Competition (biology) , interaction between living things in which the fitness of one is lowered by the presence of another Competition (economics) , two or more businesses ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, "action of competing," from Latin competitionem (nominative competitio ) "agreement, rivalry," noun of action from past participle stem of competere (see compete ). Meaning "a contest for something" is from 1610s. Sense of "rivalry in the marketplace" ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers; "business competition can be fiendish at times" an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants [syn: contest ] the act of competing as for profit or a prize; ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a talent contest/show/competition ▪ Don’t assume winning a talent contest is a passport to success. Competition Commission, the fierce competition ▪ fierce competition between the companies intense competition ▪ There ...

Usage examples of competition.

The competition for the two states is won by whichever chord has its neurons activated first, i.

Far from feeling any surprise that some of the cave-animals should be very anomalous, as Agassiz has remarked in regard to the blind fish, the Amblyopsis, and as is the case with the blind Proteus with reference to the reptiles of Europe, I am only surprised that more wrecks of ancient life have not been preserved, owing to the less severe competition to which the inhabitants of these dark abodes will probably have been exposed.

The competition of younger professionals, of wandering backveld Boers and even of poaching natives who had obtained guns, was growing severe.

Alice Aron and Barbara Carollo were two members of the Que Queens who were also on official competition barbeque teams.

How much longer, he wondered, would Bardo the Just allow the competition to go on?

He always stays for the Caddies Cup in mid-September, the last junior competition of the season.

In the rarified world of the celebrity anchor, Cheeta Ching was Queen of the Mountain-and determined to grind her stiletto heels into the eyes of the competition.

There was going to be lots of competition for the ovens, so I had to get to work on my choux paste and bake it off in advance.

The only thing I picked up worth noting was that they cosponsor a rose competition with the River Oaks Garden Club once a year at the VFW hall.

There is keen competition between the stables, but when the Dalai Lama or a minister has a horse running, it is obvious that he has got to come in first.

Kevin Peterson, who had just moved to Dixieland from Little Rock, dominated the competition.

Utopians and dystopians all attempted to display their superior system on worlds where corrupting competition did not exist.

George had been too stupid and Ezra too easygoing to offer any competition.

One other practical consideration would make against realism in such works as those at Varallo, I mean the fact that if the figures were to be portraits of the Varallo celebrities of the time, the whole place would have been set by the ears in the competition as to who was to be represented and with what precedence.

West Coast gearheads who modified small engines for remote-control robotics competitions.