compete+with

  • 1compete with — index antagonize, counter, fight (battle), grapple Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 2compete with someone for — contend with someone for, vie for, struggle with someone for …

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  • 3someone cannot compete (with) — someone/something/cannot compete (with) phrase someone or something can never be as good or successful as someone or something else Companies as small as ours just can’t compete with multinationals. Thesaurus: worsesynonym …

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  • 4something cannot compete (with) — someone/something/cannot compete (with) phrase someone or something can never be as good or successful as someone or something else Companies as small as ours just can’t compete with multinationals. Thesaurus: worsesynonym …

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  • 5compete — com‧pete [kəmˈpiːt] verb [intransitive] COMMERCE when one company or country competes with another, it tries to get people to buy its goods or services rather than those available from another company or country: • measures to enable Irish… …

    Financial and business terms

  • 6Compete — Com*pete , v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Competed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Competing}.] [L. completere, competitum; com + petere to seek. See {Petition}.] To contend emulously; to seek or strive for the same thing, position, or reward for which another is… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 7compete — com|pete W3S3 [kəmˈpi:t] v ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(business)¦ 2¦(person)¦ 3¦(in a competition)¦ 4 somebody/something can t compete with somebody/something ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ [Date: 1600 1700; : Late Latin; Origin: competere [i] to try (with others) to get , from Latin,… …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 8compete — [[t]kəmpi͟ːt[/t]] ♦♦♦ competes, competing, competed 1) V RECIP When one firm or country competes with another, it tries to get people to buy its own goods in preference to those of the other firm or country. You can also say that two firms or… …

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  • 9compete */*/*/ — UK [kəmˈpiːt] / US [kəmˈpɪt] verb [intransitive] Word forms compete : present tense I/you/we/they compete he/she/it competes present participle competing past tense competed past participle competed to try to be more successful than other… …

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  • 10compete — verb ADVERB ▪ effectively, successfully ▪ directly ▪ Their products compete directly with ours. ▪ head to head ▪ The company is prepared to compet …

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