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单词 competition
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competitionn.

Brit. /ˌkɒmpᵻˈtɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌkɑmpəˈtɪʃən/
Etymology: < Latin competītiōn-em agreement, a judicial demand, rivalry, noun of action < competĕre : see compete v.1
1.
a. ‘The action of endeavouring to gain what another endeavours to gain at the same time’ (Johnson); the striving of two or more for the same object; rivalry. Now largely used in connection with competitive examinations.
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society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > [noun]
rivality1528
strife1530
envy1541
emulation1552
contention1576
pinglinga1578
countermatch1581
paragon1590
competency1594
corrivality1598
rivalry1598
concurrence1603
contestation1603
competitiona1608
rivalling1607
concurrency1609
strift1612
corrivalry1614
rivalty1631
contest1648
corrivalty1649
coping1678
co-rivalry1835
rivalism1850
a1608 F. Vere Comm. (1657) 26 Though there were grudging there could be no competition.
1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 476 God..will not long defer To vindicate the glory of his name Against all competition . View more context for this quotation
1694 J. Collier Misc. v. 54 Where there is so much of..Competition, and Uncertainty, you must expect Self-interest will govern.
1859 J. S. Mill On Liberty iii. 132 Opening all objects of ambition, even the highest, to general competition.
1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation 65 It is useless for real genius to enter the lists of competition without this training.
1891 N.E.D. at Competition Mod. The place will be filled by open competition..These scholarships are now thrown open to general competition.
b. Commerce. Rivalry in the market, striving for custom between those who have the same commodities to dispose of.
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society > trade and finance > trading conditions > [noun] > competition
competition1793
imperfect1837
monopolistic competition1908
1793 J. Bentham Emancipate your Colonies in Wks. (1843) IV. 412 From high profits in trade comes influx of traders—from influx of traders, competition among traders—from competition among traders, reduction of prices.
1832 H. Martineau For Each & All iii. 39 Competition is more likely than co~operation to induce prudence and foresight.
1871 J. Ruskin Munera Pulveris (1880) 13 Vulgar political economy asserts..that wages are determined by competition.
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 26 Feb. 12/1 The war of commerce which, under the name of ‘competition’, goes on unceasingly.
1891 N.E.D. at Competition Mod. Maxim. Competition is the life of trade.
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c. In Scots Law applied chiefly to those contests which arise on bankruptcy, between creditors claiming in virtue of their respective securities or diligences.
d. Const. for; formerly also †to.
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1624 Abp. J. Williams in S. R. Gardiner Fortescue Papers (1871) 204 In the competicion for soe unworthy and meane a remote northerne Deanerye.
a1626 F. Bacon Advice to G. Villiers in Wks. (1861) XIII. 46 Competition to the crown there is none nor can be.
1677 J. Dryden State Innocence Ep. Ded. sig. A2 There is no Competition but for the second place.
1891 N.E.D. at Competition Mod. The competition for the appointment will no doubt be severe.
e. in, into competition.
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1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. L4v The Priest-hood, which euer hath been in some competicion with Empire.
a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1958) IX. 116 Bring the Honours of this world into the Balance, into competition, into comparison with that eternall weight of Glory in heaven.
1660 R. Coke Justice Vindicated Ep. Ded. 5 No man presumes to stand in competition with you.
1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. iii. 70 They are a very small inconsiderable Tribe, in competition with those I treat of.
1786 E. Inchbald I'll tell you What ii. ii 28 You wou'd not, even in idea, put him in competition with me.
1841–8 F. Myers Catholic Thoughts II. iii. §28. 104 The highest claims of the older Law are not to be put into competition with that Dispensation.
f. Ecology. (See quots.)
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the world > life > biology > balance of nature > relationships of organisms > [noun] > antagonism, competition, etc.
struggle for existence, for lifea1827
antibiosis1899
competition1905
predatism1920
1905 F. E. Clements Res. Methods Ecol. iv. 285 Competition is a question of the reaction of a plant upon the physical factors which encompass it, and of the effect of these modified factors upon the adjacent plants.
1905 F. E. Clements Res. Methods Ecol. iv. 316 Competition, the relation between plants occupying the same area, and dependent upon the same supply of physical factors.
1916 F. E. Clements Plant Succession iv. 72 Competition occurs whenever two or more plants make demands in excess of the supply... In its essential nature, competition is a decrease in the amount of water and light available for each individual.
1925 R. H. Yapp in Festschrift C. Schröter 691 The term ‘competition’..is, properly speaking, confined to those cases in the general struggle for existence in which living organisms compete or strive with one another for a limited supply of the necessaries of life—water, light, salts, insect visitors and so on.
g. The person or persons competing with one in business, etc.; the opposition in a race or contest. Frequently with the.
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society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > [noun] > competitor or rival > the opposition in a contest
competition1961
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > non-manual worker > businessman > [noun] > person(s) competing in business
rival1812
competition1961
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvi. [Eumaeus] 590 The idea..was to do good and net a profit, there being no competition to speak of.]
1961 R. A. Futterman Future of our Cities iii. 65 Fear of the competition — always a great motivating force in the American economy.
1965 Automotive Body Engineering Aug. 9 (advt.) Get the edge on the competition by fitting Bostik flange finishers.
1972 Newsweek 10 Jan. 43/1 When Josephine the Lady Plumber was introduced to U.S. television audiences years ago, she seemed as improbable a figure as her competition Mr. Clean—and she was decidedly more comical.
1977 Custom Car Nov. 14/2 Custom Car—sponsored George Polley (306)..made the competition look like amateurs, as he soared to victory in the Southern Championship at Arlington Raceway.
1983 Times 20 Oct. 17/8 The package sets down a marker for the competition.
1986 Observer 23 Nov. 40/5 The competition cannot assure that they can sell the securities they need to raise the money. We can.
2. A contest for the acquisition of something; a match to determine relative excellence; a trial of ability in order to decide the superiority or comparative fitness of a number of candidates.
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society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > [noun] > a contest or competition
match1531
goala1555
vie1568
skirmish1576
rencounter1594
drop-vie1598
duellism1602
duello1606
bout1609
duel1613
competition1618
matcha1637
tournament1638
contest1648
rencontre1667
pingle?1719
sprawla1813
go1823
bet1843
bucklea1849
comp1929
cook-off1936
title race1948
1618 Sir H. Carey in S. R. Gardiner Fortescue Papers (1871) 56 Manifould desires and competitions to succeed him.
1632 P. Massinger Maid of Honour i. ii. sig. C4 Of such a competition, you alone Should weare the ghirlond.
1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 220 Few competitions but engender spite, And those the most, where neither has a right.
1891 N.E.D. at Competition Mod. For the next lot put up to auction there was a keen competition. When does the rifle competition come off?

Compounds

C1. attributive and in other combinations, as competition price, competition rent, competition scholarship, one decided by competition.
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1875 H. J. S. Maine Lect. Early Hist. Inst. vi. 175 Though the Irish expression translated ‘rack-rent’ cannot..denote an extreme competition rent.
1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 28 Oct. 6/2 In an architect's office..competition sets of plans.
1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 Oct. 2/1 Legislation on the principle of the competition-curbing Acts.
C2.
competition-wallah n. Anglo-Indian colloquial [Urdu -wālā = Latin -ārius, English -er] = competitioner n.1; applied to members of the Indian Civil Service admitted on the competitive system, when first introduced in 1856.
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1863 All Year Round X. 203 (heading) Competition Wallahs.
1864 Trevelyan (title) Letters of a Competition-wallah.
1864 Trevelyan Letters of Competition-wallah 9 The stories against the competition-wallahs, which are told and fondly believed by the Haileybury men.
1878 Sat. Rev. 15 June 750 The Competition-Wallah, at home on leave or retirement, dins perpetually into our ears the greatness of India.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

competitionv.

Etymology: < competition n.
Obsolete. rare.
To compete.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > be or become equal [verb (intransitive)] > rival or vie with
strive?c1225
countervailc1525
to hold handc1600
compete1620
to keep upa1633
competition1650
tie1680
to fall over one another1888
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > be unharmonious or incongruous with [verb (transitive)] > be inconsistent with
competition1650
militate1756
1650 J. Cardell Morbus Epidemicus 25 If..any thing of their own..shall providentially competition with the publique good.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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