Definition of Competition

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Competition

The act of seeking, or endeavoring to gain, what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time; common strife for the same objects; strife for superiority; emulous contest; rivalry, as for approbation, for a prize, or as where two or more persons are engaged in the same business and each seeking patronage; -- followed by for before the object sought, and with before the person or thing competed with.

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Competition Quotations

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
Barack Obama

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.
Walt Disney

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.
Henry Ford

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.
Karl Marx

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
George S. Patton

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying.
Marcus Garvey

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.
Colin Powell

Competition is a sin.
John D. Rockefeller

There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing.
William Glasser

Competition Translations

competition in Afrikaans is kompetisie, wedstryd
competition in Danish is konkurrence
competition in Dutch is wedijver
competition in French is concours, concurrence
competition in German is Konkurrenz, Wettbewerb, Wettbewerb
competition in Hungarian is verseny
competition in Italian is concorrenza
competition in Norwegian is konkurranse

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