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Competition \Com`pe*ti"tion\, n. [L. competition. See
{Compete}.]
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.
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Competition to the crown there is none, nor can be.
--Bacon.
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A portrait, with which one of Titian's could not come
in competition. --Dryden.
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There is no competition but for the second place.
--Dryden.
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Where competition does not act at all there is complete
monopoly. --A. T.
Hadley.

Syn: Emulation; rivalry; rivalship; contest; struggle;
contention; opposition; jealousy. See {Emulation}.
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