Synonyms for competition
ˌkɒm pɪˈtɪʃ əncom·pe·ti·tion

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1. competitionnoun

   The action of competing.

   The competition for this job is strong.

   Antonyms:
   cooperation

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1. competition

   Aspiration is the desire for excellence, pure and simple. Ambition, literally a going around to solicit votes, has primary reference to the award or approval of others, and is the eager desire of power, fame, or something deemed great and eminent, and viewed as a worthy prize. The prizes of aspiration are virtue, nobility, skill, or other high qualities. The prizes of ambition are advancement, fame, honor, and the like. There is a noble and wise or an ignoble, selfish, and harmful ambition. Emulation is not so much to win any excellence or success for itself as to equal or surpass other persons. There is such a thing as a noble emulation, when those we would equal or surpass are noble, and the means we would use worthy. But, at the highest, emulation is inferior as a motive to aspiration, which seeks the high quality or character for its own sake, not with reference to another. Competition is the striving for something that is sought by another at the same time. Emulation regards the abstract, competition the concrete; rivalry is the same in essential meaning with competition, but differs in the nature of the objects contested for, which, in the case of rivalry, are usually of the nobler sort and less subject to direct gaging, measurement, and rule. We speak of competition in business, emulation in scholarship, rivalry in love, politics, etc.; emulation of excellence, success, achievement; competition for a prize; rivalry between persons or nations. Competition may be friendly, rivalry is commonly hostile. Opposition is becoming a frequent substitute for competition in business language; it implies that the competitor is an opponent and hinderer.

   Synonyms:
   ambition, aspiration, emulation, opposition, rivalry

   Antonyms:
   carelessness, contentment, humility, indifference, satisfaction

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1. competition

   Synonyms:
   rivalry, emulation, race, two of a trade

   Antonyms:
   association, colleagueship, alliance, jointstock, copartnership, confederation

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1. competitionnoun

   a business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers

   "business competition can be fiendish at times"

   Synonyms:
   contention, contest, competitor, challenger, rivalry, rival, contender

   Antonyms:
   cooperation

2. contest, competitionnoun

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

   Synonyms:
   competitor, contender, rival, rivalry, contention, challenger, contest

   Antonyms:
   cooperation

3. competition, contention, rivalrynoun

   the act of competing as for profit or a prize

   "the teams were in fierce contention for first place"

   Synonyms:
   rival, contestation, competitor, disceptation, disputation, contender, rivalry, argument, arguing, contention, challenger, contest, tilt, controversy

   Antonyms:
   cooperation

4. rival, challenger, competitor, competition, contendernoun

   the contestant you hope to defeat

   "he had respect for his rivals"; "he wanted to know what the competition was doing"

   Synonyms:
   rival, competitor, contender, contention, rivalry, challenger, contest

   Antonyms:
   cooperation

Matched Categories

1. • Business Relation
   • Contestant
   • Group Action
   • Social Event

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1. competitionnoun

   Synonyms:
   rivalry, RIVALSHIP, emulation, contest (for the same object)

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1. competitionnoun

   Synonyms:
   emulation, rivalry, contention, strife

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1. List of paraphrases for "competition":

   competitions, competitive, contest, competitiveness, competence, compete, rivalry, rival, wettbewerb, jurisdiction, competitors, contests, competitor, competing, concurrence, race, tournament, pageant, moot, assistance, maximum

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How to use competition in a sentence?

1. Simon Shaw:

   The supply of strong examples remaining in private hands is shrinking fast, the result is fierce competition that leads to the results we have witnessed recently.

2. Matt Nelsen:

   One means by which organisms engage in this battle (competition with other organisms) is through the synthesis of chemicals that may inhibit the growth of or kill other organisms.

3. Tim Cook:

   We are deeply concerned about regulations that would undermine privacy and security in service of some other aim, here in Washington and elsewhere, policymakers are taking steps, in the name of competition, that would force Apple to let apps onto iPhone that circumvent the App Store through a process called sideloading.

4. The American stand-up comedienne:

   Definitely whatever you think of it, it's a conversation. You walk out of there talking to your friends about mental illness, about depression, about what deserves empathy, what deserves sympathy, you might walk away having nothing but disdain for this woman. People have harder childhoods than she had and persevere through them with aplomb but it's not a competition. (For) this woman, life is hard for her.

5. Margrethe Vestager:

   If we want to define the market, to set out what's acceptable and what isn't, then what we need is not more competition enforcement. We need regulation, so we may also need broader rules to make sure that the way companies collect and use data doesn't harm the fundamental values of our society.