Competition - Definition
competition
n 1: a business relation in which two parties compete to gain
customers; "business competition can be fiendish at times"
2: an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or
more contestants [syn: contest, competition]
3: the act of competing as for profit or a prize; "the teams
were in fierce contention for first place" [syn:
competition, contention, rivalry] [ant: cooperation]
4: the contestant you hope to defeat; "he had respect for his
rivals"; "he wanted to know what the competition was doing"
[syn: rival, challenger, competitor, competition,
contender]