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competitor meaning

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    Definition of competitor in English Dictionary

  • NounPLcompetitorsPREcom-
    1. A person or organization against whom one is competing.
      1. A participant in a competition, especially in athletics.
      2. More Examples
        1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
          • The are losing ground to foreign competitors every year.
          • We had to rebid the contract when accusations of fraud by other competitors occurred.
          • If at any hole a competitor play his first stroke from outside the limits of the teeing-ground, he shall count that stroke, tee a ball, and play his second stroke from within these limits.
        2. Used in the Ending of Sentence
          • They ripped off the whole idea from their competitors.
          • If we obtain a loan using the business as collateral, the effect will be to capitalize our next ten years of income, giving us cash today that we can use to buy out our competitor.
      • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
        1. Nouns
          • Countable nouns
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        1. en competitors
        2. en competitory
        Source: Wiktionary

        Meaning of competitor for the defined word.

        Grammatically, this word "competitor" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.
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