[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

competition \com`peti"tion\, n. l. competition. see
   compete.
   the act of seeking, or endeavoring to gain, what another is
   endeavoring to gain at the same time; common strife for the
   same objects; strife for superiority; emulous contest;
   rivalry, as for approbation, for a prize, or as where two or
   more persons are engaged in the same business and each
   seeking patronage; -- followed by for before the object
   sought, and with before the person or thing competed with.
   1913 webster

         competition to the crown there is none, nor can be.
                                                  --bacon.
   1913 webster

         a portrait, with which one of titian's could not come
         in competition.                          --dryden.
   1913 webster

         there is no competition but for the second place.
                                                  --dryden.
   1913 webster

         where competition does not act at all there is complete
         monopoly.                                --a. t.
                                                  hadley.

   syn: emulation; rivalry; rivalship; contest; struggle;
        contention; opposition; jealousy. see emulation.
        1913 webster
see also:
compete emulation 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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
     3: the act of competing as for profit or a prize; "the teams
        were in fierce contention for first place" syn: 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, contender
see also:
contest contention rivalry cooperation rival challenger 
competitor contender 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

51 moby thesaurus words for "competition":
   antagonism, antipathy, bad blood, championship, clashing,
   collision, competitor, concours, conflict, contention, contest,
   contrariety, contrariness, corrival, cross-purposes,
   cutthroat competition, disaccord, dissension, emulation, enmity,
   event, fractiousness, friction, game, gamesmanship, hostility,
   inimicalness, jockeying, lifemanship, match, meet, meeting,
   negativeness, noncooperation, obstinacy, one-upmanship, oppugnancy,
   perverseness, recalcitrance, refractoriness, rencontre, repugnance,
   rivalry, strife, striving, struggle, tournament, tug-of-war,
   uncooperativeness, vying, warfare

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