compete
verb (used without object)
to strive to outdo another for acknowledgment, a prize, supremacy, profit, etc.; engage in a contest; vie: to compete in business.
noncompeting
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a word derived from
compete.
Example Sentences
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Being a director is largely a part-time job, and it’s common for a member to sit on boards of a few different noncompeting companies.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 4, 2019
We have a noncompeting management team, though, where we don’t get paid for brokering.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2015
In structured sessions, owners take turns presenting their business problems to a dozen or so peers, owners of local but noncompeting businesses.
From New York Times ● May 23, 2012
Only last May, Justice issued a 27-page merger guideline suggesting that conglomerates would be opposed if, for instance, the merger would prevent two noncompeting partners from entering each other's fields on their own.
From Time Magazine Archive
I would be representing my country in Belgium that fall alongside Brenna Dowell, McKayla Maroney, and Kyla Ross, with Elizabeth Price as the noncompeting alternate.
From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles
