Translate competition | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish Definition of competition
noun
[mass noun] the activity or condition of striving to gain or win something by defeating or establishing superiority over others:there is fierce competition between banks the competition for university places is greater than ever this year [count noun] an event or contest in which people take part in order to establish superiority or supremacy in a particular area:a beauty competition [in singular] the person or people over whom one is attempting to establish one’s supremacy or superiority; the opposition:I walked round to check out the competition Ecology interaction between animal or plant species, or individual organisms, that are attempting to gain a share of a limited environmental resource: competition with ungulates or condylarths appears to have been the undoing of marsupials in North America
