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competing
Word definitions for competing in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Compete \Com*pete"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Competed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Competing .] [L. completere, competitum; com- + petere to seek. See Petition .] To contend emulously; to seek or strive for the same thing, position, or reward for which another is striving; ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES competing claims ▪ the competing claims of the political parties EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ An alternative approach is to recognise the possibility of a more broadly-based balancing of the competing interests involved. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
being in the state of competition (often unintentionally) v (present participle of compete English)
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. being in competition; "competing businesses" [syn: competing(a) ]
Usage examples of competing.
For example, New Guinea peoples who never domesticated sago palms or mountain pan-danus nevertheless increase production of these wild edible plants by clearing away encroaching competing trees, keeping channels in sago swamps clear, and promoting growth of new sago shoots by cutting down mature TO FARM OR NOT TO FARM ¦ 107 sago trees.
Instead, we must consider food production and hunting-gathering as alternative strategies competing with each other.
Darwin's phrase "natural selection" refers to certain individuals of a species surviving better, and / or reproducing more successfully, than competing individuals of the same species under natural conditions.
As for strawberries and raspberries, we had similar trouble competing with thrushes and other berry-loving birds.
The fact is that, over entire continents and other large areas containing hundreds of competing societies, some societies will be more open to innovation, and some will be more resistant.
Because British municipal governments had invested heavily in gas lighting and placed regulatory obstacles in the way of the competing electric light companies.
Hence, all other things being equal, technology develops fastest in large productive regions with large human populations, many potential inventors, and many competing societies.
Austronesians enjoyed few advantages in competing with those established New Guinean populations.
These differences stemmed ultimately from Eurasia's much longer history of densely populated, economically specialized, politically centralized, interacting and competing societies dependent on food production.
But, all other things being equal, more land and more people mean more competing societies and inventions, hence a faster pace of development.
A larger area or population means more potential inventors, more competing societies, more innovations available to adopt—and more pressure to adopt and retain innovations, because societies failing to do so will tend to be eliminated by competing societies.
Among the world's landmasses, area and the number of competing societies were largest for Eurasia, much smaller for Australia and New Guinea and especially for Tasmania.
In contrast, Europe's geographic balkanization resulted in dozens or hundreds of independent, competing statelets and centers of innovation.
It was adopted initially, out of many competing keyboard designs, for trivial specific reasons involving early typewriter construction in America in the 1860s, typewriter salesmanship, a decision in 1882 by a certain Ms.
Sassinak listened politely enough, but with the internal feeling of the adult listening to eight-year-olds discussing the merits of competing toys.