Definition of Competition
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.
Related Definitions:
Act,
And,
Another,
Approbation,
Are,
As,
At,
Before,
Business,
By,
Common,
Competed,
Contest,
Each,
Emulous,
Endeavoring,
Engaged,
Followed,
For,
Gain,
In,
Is,
More,
Object,
Of,
Or,
Patronage,
Person,
Prize,
Rivalry,
Same,
Seeking,
Sought,
Strife,
Superiority,
The,
Thing,
Time,
To,
Two,
What,
Where,
With
Competition Quotations
I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.
Walt Disney
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
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
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
So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.
William Morris
Well, we know that people in Australia love the idea of both Impulse and Virgin Blue getting up and adding a bit of competition, and it's fun to be able to deliver it.
Richard Branson
Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank.
Richard Branson
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
Andrew Carnegie
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
Copyright © 2001 - 2012 BrainyQuote
BookRags Media Network
