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}]