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competitiveness

American  
[kuhm-pet-i-tiv-nis] / kəmˈpɛt ɪ tɪv nɪs /

noun

  1. the tendency to perceive and approach activities in a competitive way.

  2. the quality of being useful or advantageous in competition with rivals.


Example Sentences

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Restaurant delivery is a highly competitive business filled with widely available services through companies such as DoorDash and Uber.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

They are constructed products governed by rules, committees, methodologies, assumptions and increasingly competitive business pressures.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026

"I don't know how you are a competitive business in the future without having a strong competency in this."

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026

According to people familiar with the ESPN-Penn arrangement, the app simply didn’t reach its financial targets in the highly competitive business, which operates in the 31 states where online gambling is legal.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2025

The men who are going to compete most successfully in modern competitive business are competing by knowing how to coöperate better than their competitors do.

From Crowds A Moving-Picture of Democracy by Lee, Gerald Stanley

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