the competition
Only one competitor made a clear jump of the highest fence .
Their million-pound bid for the company was trumped at the last moment by an offer for almost twice as much from their main competitor.
Companies saddled with high debt have become inviting targets for cash-rich competitors.负债累累的公司成为了现金充足的竞争者的好目标。
The retail group outbid all three competitors for space in the shopping centre.这家零售集团在竞买购物中心铺位时，出价高于另外3家竞争者。
The payoff for years of research is a microscope which performs better than all of its competitors.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Competitors & participants in sports & games
anchorman
attacker
back four
baller
ballplayer
challenger
jumper
keeper
logroller
long-jumper
longboarder
major league
mid-table
opponent
retire
torero
toxophilite
traceur
trampolinist
trialist

competitor | Business English

competitor
noun[ C ]
uk /kəmˈpetɪtər/us
a person, product, company, etc. that is trying to compete with others, for example, by trying to make bigger sales in a particular market:
chief/main/major competitorAt least one major competitor is gearing up to provide local service at lower prices.
domestic/foreign/overseas competitorIn an effort to undercut foreign competitors, the company recently unveiled a low-end model that sells for as little as $360.
Many companies focus much of their energy on taking market share from their competitors.

Examples of competitor

competitor
To gain market advantage, a manufacturer should outclass competitors in either quality or cost or quick response, or a combination of one or more.
To be more precise, he runs away from the law by defiantly refusing to win the race as the favourite competitor.
If the identity of the nearest competitor is important, then the margin of victory over this competitor should be a significant constraint on expenditure decisions.
There are and always will be "schools of thought" that favor one or more interpretive themes over competitors.
This is not a process of a large number of competitors joining a system that thereby becomes entrenched.
If this position can be sustained, then the advantages of bivalentist omniscience over its competitors make it the natural default position for open theists.
This approach requires numerous dilution series to ensure synchronisation between the linear range of amplification of the unknowns and the competitors.
The emphasis of and articulated reason for the competitions is the lyrical content and vocal artistry of competitors.
The middle-aged group, the 30- to 49-year-olds, are a watershed generation, where really and very are robust competitors.
For instance, the terms of a contract with a company may need to be held confidential and protected from competitors.
The state conferred upon a privileged few the right to unilaterally set prices, regulate output and exclude competitors from the market.
The reason was that the forest animals were the main competitors for the jungle crops.
In this paper, we discuss three such approaches suggested in the recent economic literature: the time-elasticity, competitor-share, and option-demand approaches.
The name of the within-language competitor was never spoken in either language during the experiment.
I will argue that the proposals made in the commentaries are not viable competitors.
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Collocations withcompetitor

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These are words often used in combination with competitor.

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chief competitor
Moreover, both railwaymen and road hauliers are wrong in assuming that each is the other's chiefcompetitor.
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