| 单词 | competitor |
| 释义 | competitor (kəmpetɪtəʳ ) Word forms: competitors 1. countable noun [oft poss NOUN] B1+ A company's competitors are companies who are trying to sell similar goods or services to the same people. The bank isn't performing as well as some of its competitors. Synonyms: rival, competition, opposition, adversary 2. countable noun B1 A competitor is a person who takes part in a competition or contest. Herbert Blocker of Germany, one of the oldest competitors, won the individual silver medal. Synonyms: contestant, participant, contender, challenger Collocations: competitors race Competitors race against each other in groups of four on a course that includes banked turns, jumps and difficult terrain. Times, Sunday Times Competitors race in fours around a cinder track. Times, Sunday Times It sees competitors race on a track at up to 75mph. The Sun Approximately 250 people hide in the town while 350 competitors race to find someone to bring back to the start line. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Over the course of the competition there are two major awards that competitors race for. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It's not like they're a direct competitor. Times, Sunday Times It has no direct competitor so, in theory, it shouldn't take a rocket scientist to get the company back on track. Times, Sunday Times Discussions have taken place at the highest level of the corporation as to what format the 'direct competitor' would take and who would host it. The Sun These days, the beneficiary of any transmission improvements may be several states away and a direct competitor of the utility that owns the lines. Globe and Mail He sees everyone else as a direct competitor and becomes extremely jealous whenever someone makes money. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The kirana owners fear that they will be wiped out by the big foreign and domestic competitors. Times, Sunday Times On average, foreignowned businesses achieve higher levels of productivity than domestic competitors. Times, Sunday Times The brand differentiated itself by departing from the model used by its domestic competitors and dedicating itself to providing high-end, high quality casual apparel. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The takeover ended a 35-year partnership between the two domestic competitors. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Many of the elite competitors are swimmers or runners who have fallen into it. Times, Sunday Times While the elite competitors fight it out for the medals, other athletes seem happy to enjoy their moment in the sun. Times, Sunday Times Most elite competitors in sport have a supportive family. Times, Sunday Times Since sport resumed in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, elite competitors had been exempt from any quarantine controls because they were working in a secure environment. The Sun Odd had several elite competitors in the 1890s. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The people who cheat do damage to our sport; they cheat their fellow competitors and themselves. Times, Sunday Times To many, these dominant performances would represent an embarrassing reflection of the standards of her fellow competitors. Times, Sunday Times We wonder if she feels a bit guilty, because unlike her fellow competitors, she can focus 100 per cent on the job in hand? The Sun Elsewhere, his fellow competitors were involved in one of the biggest car crashes the game has seen. The Sun But as the runners rounded the final corner she kicked for home and left her fellow competitors trailing. The Sun For every team he was a leader, a ferocious competitor who never waited for the manager to begin the inquest after a bad defeat. Times, Sunday Times Not only was he a superb goalkeeper and defensive organiser, but he was also a ferocious competitor. Times, Sunday Times He didn't excel in any one aspect of the game, but he was an absolutely ferocious competitor. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Both came from comfortable backgrounds but rebelled to become ferocious competitors who lived for high-speed thrills. The Sun It would be hard to find two more ferocious competitors. Times,Sunday Times He was a fierce competitor, one of the greats of the game and a creative force. The Sun His stillness struck many who met him, but beneath it moved a fierce competitor, a brilliant listener and a deep understanding of the human spirit. Times, Sunday Times A fierce competitor, he speaks impressively in public after a lifelong struggle with a stammer. Times, Sunday Times A leader and a fierce competitor, but also an organiser and a strategist. Times, Sunday Times Fierce competitor who has already made his presence felt. The Sun The runner slowed and the foreign competitors overtook him. Times, Sunday Times It was chalking up huge losses, absenteeism plagued its factories and it was struggling to cope with foreign competitors. Times,Sunday Times Denying foreign competitors access until the last moment, then limiting it because of expedient glitches such as television rehearsals. Times, Sunday Times The studies revealed that performance in literacy, numeracy and science had all worsened compared with key foreign competitors over the past three years. Times, Sunday Times Spectators rise as one to welcome the players to the green, even foreign competitors who are in direct conflict with home-grown heroes. Times, Sunday Times As in court, he was a formidable competitor, tough but fair. Times, Sunday Times However, in the open competition of the auction salerooms, he was a formidable competitor. Times, Sunday Times This will be his routine again today, and for the foreseeable future, trying to regain the fitness that once saw him as a formidable competitor. The Sun Looking and sounding just the right side of overconfident, he reiterated his mantra of recent weeks that what happened last year has made him a more formidable competitor. Times, Sunday Times In the hardware business, though, it faces a formidable competitor. Times, Sunday Times Analysts have forecast that this sum could halve by 2017 as generic competitors gain ground. Times, Sunday Times Those companies will lose a large share of their revenues as a result of lower-priced products from generic competitors. Times, Sunday Times By paying a settlement that keeps its generic competitors out of the market, the patentee can set a price that's above the market level with its monopoly. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The university said that it was a global competitor and had to pay high salaries to attract talent from across the world. Times, Sunday Times The showpiece meeting of the summer will fall still further behind its global competitors. Times, Sunday Times Heavy energy users like the steel industry, facing a proportionately larger increase in power prices, will thus be at an immediate disadvantage to their global competitors. Times, Sunday Times Our global competitors won't wait for us. Times, Sunday Times This would at least get us into line with our global competitors. The Sun During his tenure, he undertook a number of acquisitions that turned the company into a major national insurance industry competitor. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A great deal can be learned by examining the credit tenants stock performance in comparison to other industry competitors. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 During the late 1970s and early 1980s, industry competitors had hustled to boost natural gas output capacity with expectations of strong demand. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The airlines - beset by high fuel prices, low-cost competitors and expensive fleet renewal costs - have entered into a frenzy of advances and approaches. Times, Sunday Times New low-cost competitors will also emerge to challenge them. Times, Sunday Times That will not, however, get rid of the glut of low-cost competitors. Times, Sunday Times Another sent in an application stating in detail why they wanted to work for the company's main competitor. Times, Sunday Times This was the subject of a nasty profit warning at the end of 2015 after a price war with its main competitor broke out. Times, Sunday Times The main competitor officially included into - open source project had limited functionality. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It has also tried to make its announcers and journalists look more like its main competitor. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Not that much further north was its main competitor, responsible for its journey into the red, who now enjoy market domination. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Eagle got its final wins after being a major competitor in the series since the beginning. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Since the late 2000s, internet video services which distribute original and non-original movies and television shows have become a major competitor to pay television channels. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It's not good for competition when one company holds such an influence over the future of one of its major competitors. Times, Sunday Times Although the film had no major competitors during the holiday weekend, it failed to gather much support. ST We are now at a disadvantage with all our major competitors because they all have top rates which are less than ours. Times, Sunday Times We now have a new market competitor, a significant operation with large resources. The Sun Alternatively, it should consider a merger with a capital markets competitor to give it global scale in investment banking. Times, Sunday Times We and our global market competitors are and have been experiencing a lack of aggregate demand for several decades. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A spokesman said that the company had a price promise to match any online competitor, but that it was not valid for phone bookings. Times, Sunday Times Back in the day it had only to fend off rivals on the high street, but now it has to contend with online competitors. Times, Sunday Times The magazine industry as a whole has struggled in recent years with new online competitors drawing away readers and advertisers. Times, Sunday Times It had made a disastrous foray into digital television and failed to grapple with the emergence of online competitors. Times, Sunday Times Both chains have been squeezed by discount rivals and the rise of online competitors. Times, Sunday Times The shares galloped ahead over the year as the two main brands outperformed their competitors. Times, Sunday Times Only a quarter, he reckons, have decisionmaking processes that allow them to outperform their competitors significantly. Times, Sunday Times Although this leaves the company exposed to currency fluctuations, the group has outperformed competitors. Times, Sunday Times It has experimentally been shown to work very well in numerous setups, often outperforming the competitors, for example in network intrusion detection. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Ultimately, individuals can entertain multiple competing goal orientations at the same time, striving to both outperform competitors and improve their own performance. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In addition, the number thinking of buying or merging with an overseas competitor has more than doubled to 28 per cent. Times, Sunday Times Sometimes exporters have been faced with the unpalatable choice of either agreeing to payments of this nature or seeing the business placed with an overseas competitor. Times, Sunday Times Or it can sit on its hands and let our overseas competitors steal the lion's share of the global games market. The Sun Yet this country's universities are losing market share to their overseas competitors. Times, Sunday Times That has brought howls of anguish from the petrochemical and other industries that want to keep this cheap fuel at home, rather than make it available for overseas competitors. Times, Sunday Times If he tried to finish off his badly wounded rival, he would merely succeed in promoting the interests of another potential competitor. Times, Sunday Times Despite a growing appetite for alliances, the commercial risks of opening up to a potential competitor remain a prime concern for some. Times, Sunday Times The airline says that this was a 'defensive' move designed to prevent potential competitors stealing its brand identity. Times, Sunday Times Ministers and regulators allied themselves with potential competitors, who inevitably outnumbered the unloved incumbents. Times, Sunday Times The firm's operational systems are robust and scaleable, and its bespoke software and established market position create high barriers for potential competitors. Times, Sunday Times That's because, for the first time in years, it will have a serious competitor. Times, Sunday Times The new group plans to become a more serious competitor to high street banks and larger asset finance providers. Times, Sunday Times Once he gets the technical aspect of his start further developed and improved, he's going to be a serious competitor and part of our relay team going forward. Times, Sunday Times From then on, the company was a serious competitor for the transatlantic trade. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 As a result a serious competitor had arisen for the steam locomotive industry. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Faced with such a strong competitor, other exchanges would be compelled to act. Times, Sunday Times It's good to have a strong competitor. Times, Sunday Times A single trade buyer was always the best option, indeed probably the only option because the competition authorities will have wanted the disposals to create a strong competitor. Times, Sunday Times But there was great political enthusiasm for the deal, which was seen as creating a strong competitor for the big banks. Times, Sunday Times Demon athletics has long been a strong competitor in the area, having participated in state championships in several sports. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He's big, a threat and a tough competitor. The Sun He has proved himself to be, among other things, an admirably tough competitor. Times, Sunday Times He had a tough competitor, which was me. Times, Sunday Times He was a tough competitor, not just in the retail business, with a sharp brain and a strong streak of pragmatism. Times, Sunday Times I was a tough competitor. Times, Sunday Times The barriers to entry to any would-be competitor are considerable. Times, Sunday Times This would-be competitor may then agree to delay entry into the market and not contest the validity, scope, or enforceability of the patent. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There's a written test that he forces would-be competitors to endure, after which he personally chooses the 'best' dozen. Times, Sunday Times Because of their extended dormant season, water hickory seedlings are able to survive late-spring floods better than most of their would-be competitors. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Decreasing costs coupled with large initial costs give monopolies an advantage over would-be competitors. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 竞争对手, 竞争对手 Japanese: 競争者, ライバル企業 |
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