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compete
/ kəmˈpiːt /
verb
- introften foll bywith to contend (against) for profit, an award, athletic supremacy, etc; engage in a contest (with)
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Other Words From
- com·pet·er noun
- com·pet·ing·ly adverb
- non·com·pet·ing adjective
- out·com·pete verb (used with object) outcompeted outcompeting
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Word History and Origins
Origin of compete1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of compete1
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Idioms and Phrases
- 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.
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Example Sentences
Good, caring teachers recognized his talent and challenged him to work hard to compete at the highest levels.
As described by its inventor, there is an Honest team and a Mafia team that compete against each other.
This puts them at odds with the countless polytheistic religions, where many gods compete for prominence.
A notably large Irish contingent took part in the infamous draft riots because they did not want to compete for jobs with blacks.
It also forced banks to consider designing their own Internet money market funds to compete with Yu'E Bao.
He designed it entirely himself; he had not to compete for the building of it, but had carte blanche in regard to every detail.
It has no established reputation in this country, and on account of the high duties can not compete with our domestic tobaccos.
The hero of the adventure does not compete with any number of knights, but is each day confronted with a chosen champion.
All the women who compete for these - 77 - prizes will be assembled on the grand staircase before the orchestra.
Only three remained to compete now for the prize, the others having given up.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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