Competing
[kəm'pitɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Compete
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Examples
- To all the purposes of politics it is settled, for instance, that the trust will never be unscrambled into small competing businesses. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Graham, it chanced, was at that time greatly preoccupied about some school-prizefor which he was competing. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- When the war over the twine-binder ended there were only twenty-two competing firms left; before that there had been over a hundred. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Jay Gould at that time controlled the Atlantic & Pacific Telegraph Company, and was competing with the Western Union and endeavoring to depress Western Union stock on the Exchange. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- There are competing claims to the invention of Centrifugal Pumps in the form now adopted. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
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