contend

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
runners and ridersidiom
sharp elbowsidiom
sharp-elbowed
sharpen (something) up
sharpen your elbowsidiom
snap
toe

vie | American Dictionary

vie
verb[ I ]
us/vɑɪ/present participlevying | past tense and past participlevied
to compete:
Several companies are vying for the contract to build the new hospital.

Examples of vie

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Such as you are, you will soon find ten wealthy noblemen who will vie for the honour of making up for the absence of salary.
For example, between vying for academic tenure positions and building the right commercial connections, both offer little in terms of long-term financial stability.
Big men are those who stand out, vie with others to make a reputation, and collect both honours and clients.
Three dueling returning boards vied for authority to decide an election that even today no one can say who won.
In addition, of course, regular inns and craft hostelries vied for custom.
Secondly, at least two separate 'families' vied for prominence among certain groups of workers.
The regime incumbents and the opposition forces vie with each other for control over the process of institutional reform.
And both vlogs (video blogs) and sound logs (often in the form of podcasts) are already beginning to vie with written blogs.
There are usually many simultaneous plans and possible actions vying for agent resources-the scheduler creates an appropriate agenda of tasks.
Moreover, leaders would still vie for the party presidency.
Politicians vied for control of government ministries in order to win the right to appoint to lower-level posts throughout the country.
Each vied for regional leadership and presented themselves as progressive authorities.
In the competitive print industry, pamphleteers vied with one another to print the most graphic accounts of the rebels' iniquities.
Thus, the translation process can be compared to a battlefield where groups with competing and irreconcilable perceptions of reality vied for supremacy.
In vying for political power, urban nationalist elites had to construct political bases in the countryside from which to win office.
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