compete
to strive to outdo another for acknowledgment, a prize, supremacy, profit, etc.; engage in a contest; vie: to compete in a race;to compete in business.
Idioms about compete
cannot/can't compete with, to not be, by a great degree, as good or capable as (someone or something else): These roses are lovely, but they can’t compete with the ones we grew back home in Ecuador.
Origin of compete
1synonym study For compete
Other words for compete
Other words from compete
- com·pet·er, noun
- com·pet·ing·ly, adverb
- non·com·pet·ing, adjective
- out·com·pete, verb (used with object), out·com·pet·ed, out·com·pet·ing.
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How to use compete in a sentence
Companies are not only competing with prices and products but customer support and building relationships as well.
Harness the power of integrated CRO and social media | Ricky Wang | November 17, 2020 | Search Engine WatchIf history is any lesson, Google is surely capable of competing with certain vertical search engines and capturing market share for consumer-based search.
With no previous fitness or dance background, he started competing in 2017.
Participants select papers that have been accepted to a conference and compete to rerun the experiments using the information provided.
At its core, Campuswire has evolved from a platform trying to compete with Zoom to a platform that is trying to compete with these MOOCS through engaging content taught by experienced professors.
As edtech crowds up, Campuswire bets big on real-time learning | Natasha Mascarenhas | November 11, 2020 | TechCrunch
British Dictionary definitions for compete
/ (kəmˈpiːt) /
(intr often foll by with) to contend (against) for profit, an award, athletic supremacy, etc; engage in a contest (with)
Origin of compete
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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