noun
definition
A person or organization against whom one is competing.
definition
A participant in a competition, especially in athletics.
Examples of competitor in a Sentence
By this time a competitor had entered the field.
He was thrice a successful competitor for the prizes of the Academy of Sciences of Paris.
Very soon the Asahi had a keen competitor in the Osaka Mainichi Shimbun (Osaka Daily News) and these papers ultimately crushed all rivals in Osaka.
In agricultural machinery Germany is a serious competitor with England.
Euler, assisted by his eldest son Johann Albert, was a competitor for these prizes, and obtained both.
In January 904 he was; treated in the same fashion by his competitor, Sergius III., who had him strangled.
With the number of telemarketing calls telling you about a competitor's low rates and the plethora of commercials advertising flat fees for long distance calls, you may be wondering if now is the time to switch your carrier.
Most phone companies will be eager to keep you as a customer, even if it means they must match a competitor's offer to prevent you from switching carriers.
One major competitor to Facebook is MySpace.
One of the company's key points of customer service is that it will beat a competitor's price, even if it's an advertised special, within a year of your purchase date.
Walmart will price match local competitor prices, so you can build your Shopping List and then print out the price match list to take to Walmart.
This retailer is a competitor to be reckoned with in the field of discount shoes and can hold its own with the new styles it offers season after season.
If your budget doesn't allow for the UT gold watch, you may want to look at the Texas Longhorns Men's Competitor Watch available at Football Fanatics.
Considering that Microsoft has always perceived Macintosh as a weak competitor more education-oriented and lacking a business orientation, this bias isn't a mystery from a business point of view.
You may also want to visit competitor websites and see what words they are using to target their visitors.
If you are nice about it and aren't a competitor, you might even get the owner of the desired site name to link your site on the front page.
If your business is unable to meet your customers' needs, then they will simply take their business to a competitor.
Why are competitor's products inferior, vulnerable to be overtaken by your own, or not meeting the consumer's needs best?
What is the top competitor doing in sales?
Another major competitor is Belk's a department store owned by Federated Brands.
In this pose, the competitor's upper arms are held approximately parallel to the floor and the fists are in a balled position.
The rear double bicep pose gives the bodybuilding competitor another chance to show off his or her amazing bicep flex.
Some also comment that Progressive tends to be more expensive then competitor Geico, but the specific rates and comparisons differ depending on the person applying.
The company announced reorganization and new policies in early 2000, but after several years of struggle, the majority of stock was sold to competitor Swiss RE.
Despite soft fabrics and a strong focus on comfort, Bedhead is a hard-edged competitor.
Unlike competitor's brands, their products are durable, stylish and provide years of comfort when cared for properly.
The loser of each game may enjoy cheering on a fellow competitor, or you may want to create a loser bracket in which those who have lost a game get to continue playing as well.
Quite the athlete in his youth and a former Ironman competitor, Bailey leads a more sedentary life these days, but he's sure he has what it takes to win.
Whitmore considers himself a fierce competitor, but he's also counting his personal charisma as one of his strongest survival skills.
Viewers' heads spun again when a guest appearance on Flavor of Love 2 turned into New York coming back into the house as a competitor for Flav's affections.
Acts range from the obscure, such as one competitor's attempt to impress the judges by balancing heavy objects with his teeth, to the mundane, in the form of a harmonica solo.
Many viewers were quite pleased when Ilan beat competitor Marcel Vigneron because Marcel had a somewhat abrasive personality.
His vast experience in a wide variety of cuisines made him a difficult competitor to beat, and he has plans to open his own restaurant eventually.
What they don't know is that there's a hidden camera trying to catch them in the act of looking at their competitor's private medical folders.
The male and female contestants voted into the dueling circle then select a competitor of their respective gender to compete against.
An antitrust law of 1907 makes it unlawful for any corporation controlling within the state the sale of 50% of an article to raise or lower the price of that article with the intention of injuring a competitor.
Valdemar had no longer a competitor.
The king of Castile finally bought off the claim of his English competitor by arranging a marriage between his son Henry and Catherine, daughter of John of Gaunt, in 1387.
The first, for a memoir on the construction of a clepsydra for measuring time exactly at sea, he gained at the age of twenty-four; the second, for one on the physical cause of the inclination of the planetary orbits, he divided with his father; and the third, for a communication on the tides, he shared with Euler, Colin Maclaurin and another competitor.
The textile industries (the making of carpets and rugs, cotton goods, cotton smallwares, dyeing and finishing textiles, felt goods, felt hats, hosiery and knit goods, shoddy, silk and silk goods, woollen goods, and worsted goods), employed 32.5% of all manufacturing wage earners in 1905, and their product ($271,369,816) was 24.1% of the total, and of this nearly one-half ($129,171,449) was in cotton goods, being 28.9% of the total output of the country, as compared with I I% for South Carolina, the nearest competitor of Massachusetts.
Eugenius was the candidate of the nobles, and the clerical faction brought forward a competitor.
Ragenfrid died in 731, and from that time Charles had no competitor in the western kingdom.
In the manufacture of textiles the United States holds the second place, after Great Britain; decidedly second in cottons, a close competitor with Great Britain and France in woollens, and with France in silks.
If, however, no one obtains the requisite majority, the roll is again called until some one competitor secures the requisite number of votes.
In 1857 commenced the exportation of Japan silk, which became so fierce a competitor with Bengal silk as gradually to displace it in favour; and the native silk reeled in Bengal has almost ceased to be made, only the best European filatures, produced under the supervision of skilled Europeans, now coming forward.
He was defeated, but his successful competitor was unseated on petition, and at the second contest Bright was returned.
In the immediate vicinity are also extensive beds of iron ore, and this combination of mineral wealth has enabled the town to become a competitor with Essen, Oberhausen, Duisburg and Hagen in the products of the iron industry.
But he failed to obtain either of two posts - the professorships of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy and of geometry in Gresham College - for which he applied in 1854, though he was elected to the former in the following year on the death of his successful competitor.
An excellent harbour, sheltered against pirates, it became almost at once a competitor for the commerce of the Baltic. Its foundation coincided with the beginning of the advance of the Low German tribes of Flanders, Friesland and Westphalia along the southern shores of the Baltic - the second great emigration of the colonizing Saxon element.
While these figures hold good, India cannot be a serious competitor with Europe in the cotton industry.