contender
The company has decided not to go through with the takeover of its smaller rival.这家公司已经决定放弃收购较小竞争对手的计划。
The airline admitted being involved in a dirty tricks campaign to win customers from their rival.
She hired an assassin to eliminate her rival.她雇用刺客来除掉她的对手。
Big supermarkets can undercut all rivals, especially small high-street shops.
They beat several other rivals for the contract.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Enemies & rivals
adversary
antagonist
arch-enemy
deadly enemy
enemy
foe
frenemy
nemesis
opponent
scalp
sworn enemy
them
them and usidiom
rival
verb[ T ]
uk /ˈraɪ.vəl/ us /ˈraɪ.vəl/-ll- or US usually-l-
C2
to be as good, clever, beautiful, etc. as someone or something else: 可与…相媲美，比得上
No computer can rival a human brain for/in complexity.没有任何计算机比得上人脑复杂。
The beauty of the country is only rivalled by (= is as great in degree as) the violence of its politics.该国的美丽风光非同寻常，而其国内政治的残暴同样惊世骇俗。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Competing and contending (non-sporting)
as a dare
be one up on someoneidiom
cat
catchup
challenge someone to something/do something
dare
get one up on someoneidiom
give someone/something a run for their moneyidiom
go in for something
go toe to toeidiom
hyper-competitive
jungle
pit
sharp elbowsidiom
sharp-elbowed
sharpen (something) up
sharpen your elbowsidiom
showing
snap
toe

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Being or appearing similar or the same

rival | American Dictionary

rival
noun[ C ]
us/ˈrɑɪ·vəl/
a person, group, or organization competing with others for the same thing or in the same area:
business/political rivals
rival
verb[ T ]
us/ˈrɑɪ·vəl/
to equal or be as good as:
No computer can rival a human brain.

rival | Business English

rival
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈraɪvəl/us
a person, company, product, etc. competing with others for the same thing or in the same area:
The strong pound will leave large sections of British manufacturing uncompetitive against rivals in the rest of Europe.
rival for sthThey are rivals for the top job.
rival to sb/sthLinux is an operating system and thus a rival to Windows.
your main/closest/biggest rival
rival
adjective[ before noun ]
uk /ˈraɪvəl/us
competing with other people, companies, products, etc. for the same thing or in the same area:
a rival company/firm
a rival bid/offer
While they are more expensive than rival products, she said the quality makes the price worth it.
Any rival bidder will have to move quickly and pay considerably more.
rival
verb[ T ]
uk /ˈraɪvəl/usUK-ll- | US-l-
to be as good as other similar people, companies, products, etc.:
In the Algarve, citrus farming is expanding rapidly and the fruit rivals anything Spain can produce.
Electronic marketplaces can offer a reach and efficiency that physical markets cannot rival.
rival sb/sth as sthChina could eventually rival Japan as the most lucrative luxury market in the world.

Examples of rival

rival
As a result of equilibrium play, the rivals can avoid fighting altogether by backing down or submitting to the other's demands at critical decision points.
With such backing, their leadership was secured against potential rivals in a way their predecessors could never have imagined.
Democracies are less likely to be rivals and democratization pushes rivalry resolution.
More successful distant rivals were the real competition, while also serving as sources of inspiration.
Worse, the radicals can also perceive them as rivals, and take advantage of their repression to start launching violent attacks to replace them.
However, costly signaling may also explain the role of food sharing in deterring rivals.
The media reported it as a clear victory for bio-medicine over its non-orthodox "rivals".
Nevertheless, our rivals threaten a range of outcomes that are observed in real world settings.
Additionally, as the size of the winning coalition increases, incumbents must spend a higher proportion of available resources to defeat political rivals.
Instead, the rivals fight preventively to evade the danger of reversion to a self-defeating extremal equilibrium that involves no further fighting.
As long as the rivals adopt incompatible bargaining positions at any point, the crisis can escalate to war and wars can be fought repeatedly.
We find that the rivals' ability to threaten each other is a critical determinant of the outcome of bargaining.
Like their rivals, government journalists were constrained in what they wrote by the law.
Instead, they must present policies that are significantly more attractive than - hence different from - their rivals' positions.
At the same time it hoped to profit from its rivals' disputes in the region.
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Collocations withrival

rival

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bitter rival
But the diva also sets her sights on him and, used to getting what she wants, becomes the bitterrival-in-love of the other singer.
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