Competitive
[kəm'petɪtɪv] or [kəm'pɛtətɪv]
Definition
(adj.) showing a fighting disposition; 'highly competitive sales representative'; 'militant in fighting for better wages for workers'; 'his self-assertive and ubiquitous energy' .
(adj.) subscribing to capitalistic competition .
(adj.) involving competition or competitiveness; 'competitive games'; 'to improve one's competitive position' .
Typist: Montague--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to competition; producing competition; competitory; as, a competitive examination.
Typed by Hester
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Competing, prompted by emulation.
Editor: Natasha
Examples
- The competitive lamps exhibited and tested at this time comprised those of Edison, Maxim, Swan, and Lane-Fox. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In 1855, at a competitive trial of reapers near Paris, three machines were entered. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- These Hague Conferences did nothing to dispel the idea that international life is necessarily competitive. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Editor: Natasha