Word Finder - competition

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The action of competing.

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The competition for this job is strong.

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A contest for a prize or award.

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The newspaper is featuring a competition to win a car.

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The competitors in such a contest.

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The new stain remover was ten times more effective than the competition.

The competition of France ceased for a time to be an important factor.

It's not a competition, he said simply.

By the way, your competition met his maker.

Competition, in the Darwinian sense, is characteristic not only of modern industrial states, but of all living organisms; and in the narrower sense of the " higgling of the market " is found on the Stock Exchange, in the markets of old towns, in medieval fairs and Oriental bazaars.

The six ladies-in-waiting of the Dean for Sheriff brigade cupped their hands and booed the competition, to the delight of the crowd.

The competition included both men and women, and all were having a great time dousing the watchers—and even the paraders passing in the opposite direction—with water guns.

The competition for work is only going to get more intense.

For instance, if you have a Facebook friend Abigail in Albania whom you only met once at a rock-paper-scissors competition years ago, you will generally regard Abigail's first-hand account as authoritative, even though you don't really know Abigail all that well.

But in the development of the railway business it soon became evident that no such dependence on free competition was possible, either in practice or in theory.

In 1879, at Kilburn, the competition was of railway waggons to convey perishable goods long distances at low temperatures.

The wool-growing industry has been almost entirely destroyed by the competition of Australia and the West, and the people are now engaged mainly in dairy-farming, timbering, graniteand marble-quarrying, and in keeping summer boarders.

In 1861 the United Kingdom Telegraph Company began a competition with the other companies on the basis of a is.

The two most prominent causes assigned for the depression were bad seasons and foreign competition, aggravated by the increased cost of production and the heavy losses of live stock.

The thought of going to college took root in my heart and became an earnest desire, which impelled me to enter into competition for a degree with seeing and hearing girls, in the face of the strong opposition of many true and wise friends.

In any business, you have so much stiff competition.

Such partial competition, with the discrimination it involves, is liable to be worse for the public than no competition at all.

He dwelt on the injury to the working classes caused by " dumping " and unfair foreign competition.

The landless laborers, who might have been hired to supply the deficiency, were so reduced in numbers that they could command, if free competition prevailed, double and triple rates of payment, compared with their earnings in the days before the plague.

Lord Ashley and the factory reformers contended, on the one hand, that ten hours were long enough for any person to work; their opponents maintained, on the contrary, that the adoption of the clause would injure the working-classes by lowering the rate of wages, and ruin the manufacturers by exposing them to foreign competition.

Entry in the competition implies acceptance of these rules.

Simon was an official accompanist for last year's BBC Singer of the World in Cardiff Competition.

Senior Officer at Union â smoked spliff with Howard Marks in Union Chamber, Director of Schools Debating Competition.

Good Friday is expected to make a lovely competition horse and sports horse stallion.

You don't need to enter via the Calor Village of the Year competition, this award is completely stand-alone.

Track & Field competition at all levels Paul running the steeplechase.

However, Kroes, attending a competition conference in Italy, sounded upbeat.

With great competition in the video game market, major developers will cater to the gamer's needs on recalls without hesitance.

You can start off with Mini-camp mode. (which also allows up to 4 players to join in via a competition atmosphere) There are 19 mini-games designed to hone your skills in passing, rushing, blocking, and ball-swatting.

The on-field action has always been tight, somehow finding just the right combination of arcade and sim-style play to satisfy gridiron junkies and stave off some serious competition over the years.

Don't fret, though, because there are at least a couple of Madden NFL 09 cheats that will put you ahead of the competition.

Choose any of the arenas and your opponents AI level and you can battle against computer-controlled racers to hone your skills for human competition.

These can give you an added advantage over your online competition or simply unlock more great content for you to enjoy.

This is somewhat in contrast to some Mario Kart games where Easter Eggs and little tricks can get you ahead of the competition.

The existing video game design schools just got a little more competition; Michigan State University has announced a two-year academic program that will earn students a minor in Game Design and Development.

When Mortal Kombat hit arcades in 1992, it acted as direct competition to the growing popularity of Street Fighter II.

The satisfaction from obliterating the competition will be even greater when every aspect of your team is yours to customize.

Sure, you can try to outrun the competition using the existing stable of cars afforded to you at the beginning of your street racing career, but you'll likely want to expand that garage every opportunity that you get.

Put the pedal to the metal, hit the NOS button, and blast past your competition with the fastest car on the road.

In 1996 Nintendo's dominance in the gaming industry faced stiff competition from the Sony PlayStation.

As part of the 32/64-bit generation of gaming machines, the Nintendo 64 was in direct competition with the Sony PlayStation and Sega Saturn, as well as the less successful Atari Jaguar and Panasonic 3DO.

Shortly after the launch of the NES, Sega entered into the picture with its Master System in June 1986; however, it wasn't until the 16-bit era that Nintendo faced any real competition.

The controller, wireless of course, is by and large the thing that is going to separate the Revolution from its competition.

As soon as you're ready, hit the Frisbee Competition to earn some nice cash for a second dog.

Sharpen your skills, hone your senses and devour the competition in the showdown of the century.

However, with the introduction of the new generation of console game systems like the Xbox 360 and the PS3, the computer gaming industry may have some serious competition for an online player's attention.

Sony kept a good thing going with the current PlayStation 2, achieving great success despite some pretty stiff competition from Microsoft in the form of the Xbox, and from Nintendo in the form of the GameCube.

The Xbox 360 is the only currently available "next-generation" machine right now, but with the Nintendo Revolution not far off, the competition will quickly become quite fierce.

It makes sense, because they had four or five months more to play their hand, work on the processor, and one-up the competition.

Hopefully gamers will be the winners in this conflict, because from all the indications, competition is good for the game-buying public.

To set itself apart from the competition, they offer a gameplay video to give you a taste of how Bookworm plays, even before you attempt to play it yourself.