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n. The act of competing, as for profit or a prize; rivalry.

n. A test of skill or ability; a contest: a skating competition.

n. Rivalry between two or more businesses striving for the same customer or market.

n. A competitor: The competition has cornered the market.

n. Ecology The simultaneous demand by two or more organisms for limited environmental resources, such as nutrients, living space, or light.

n. The action of competing.

n. A contest for a prize or award.

n. The competitors in such a contest.

n. The act of seeking, or endeavoring to gain, what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time; common strife for the same objects; strife for superiority; emulous contest; rivalry, as for approbation, for a prize, or as where two or more persons are engaged in the same business and each seeking patronage; -- followed by for before the object sought, and with before the person or thing competed with.

n. The act of seeking or endeavoring to gain what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time; common contest or striving for the same object; strife for superiority; rivalry: as, the competition of two candidates for an office. Formerly it was sometimes followed by to, now always by for, before the thing sought.

n. A trial of skill proposed as a test of superiority or comparative fitness.

n. In Scots law, a contest which arises on bankruptcy between creditors claiming in virtue of their respective securities or diligences.

n. In political economics, rivalry in the purchase or sale of a commodity or service: as, the competition of wage-earners lowers wages; British merchants have to meet German competition.

n. the contestant you hope to defeat

n. a business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers

n. an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants

n. the act of competing as for profit or a prize

"Then, journals were created merely to meet the demand, and news was given as it actually occurred; whereas, now, the competition has produced a change that any one can appreciate, when it is remembered to what a _competition in news_ must infallibly lead."

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