competitiveness

competitive | American Dictionary

competitive
adjective
us/kəmˈpet̬·ə·t̬ɪv, -ə·tɪv/
eager to do better than others in an activity, esp. trying to win in a sports activity:
a competitive person
We will be facing weaker teams, which should give us a competitive advantage/edge.
Competitive also means able to compete at the same level:
If we have to lower our prices to remain competitive, we will.

competitive | Business English

competitive
adjective
 COMMERCE, ECONOMICSuk /kəmˈpetɪtɪv/us
involving or encouraging competition:
highly/extremely/fiercely competitive
The severe downturn in the worldwide semiconductor market has increased competitive pressures in the Japanese market.
The corporate watchdog law requires large companies to formalize competitive processes for selecting vendors.
competitive prices, services, etc. are as good as or better than other prices, services, etc.:
The technology exists to convert grain and sugar to ethanol at a competitive price.
We know we have competitive products to sell, if only consumers had access to them.
The hotel works hard to offer competitive salaries and benefits to our employees.
We can't put up our prices and still remain competitive with similar brands.

competitively

adverbuk /kəmˈpetɪtɪvli/ us /-ˈpeṱəţɪv-/
In order to encourage customers to switch providers, broadband services must be competitively priced.

Examples of competitive

competitive
Such competitive bidding is a powerful way to contain costs, and is also a good way to develop drugs.
In the current, competitive environment for utilities, power plant owners are reluctant to provide much advance notice of when outages will occur.
Consequently, we are at a competitive disadvantage with the executive branch in some areas, such as performance rewards.
Work emphasis is prevocational in nature, and it is usually assumed that individuals at this programme level are incapable of competitive employment.
To move from a regular workshop programme to competitive employment required an average of yet another nine years.
Usually agricultural technology is closely linked to that of industrial technology and is constantly innovating as private farms strive to remain competitive.
Two types of interaction (competitive or non-competitive inhibition) are allowed.
Establishment of the maternal-fetal interface is extremely competitive among littermates in early swine gestation.
In general, the different approaches can be seen as complementary rather than competitive.
The marginal effect was slightly smaller in 1989, suggesting that hospitals in more competitive areas may have reallocated resources into administrative services.
Rather than being celebrated as proof of the competitive merits of democratic elitism, such an outcome may create convulsions or reduce national economic performance.
As a response to the brutal competitive individualism which is fashionable today, this proposal is understandable.
Competitive innovation has proved decisive in many industries over the last two decades in determining which firms assume leadership positions and which disappear.
Competitive imperatives drive firms' choices of strategy and may, as we illustrate later on, have little to do with short-run considerations of national economic factors.
Herding instincts and trainability can be measured at noncompetitive herding tests.
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