Competitors
[kəm'pɛtətɚ]
Examples
- Yet as soon as the invention was actually before the world business competitors sprang up on every hand. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Long ago, when he had been famous among his earliest competitors as a youth of great promise, he had followed his father to the grave. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I hear your May is one of the competitors. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- In a trade so easily learnt he would have more competitors, and his wages, when he came to be a complete workman, would be much less than at present. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- You have distanced all competitors and obtained a diploma of honor, the highest award given in the Exposition. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- McCormick fought for years to uphold his rights to the invention of the reaper, but he fought a host of competitors, and the warfare was of the guerrilla order. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Her relatives encouraged me; competitors piqued me; she allured me: a marriage was achieved almost before I knew where I was. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- From the building of his factory in Chicago McCormick had been engaged in continuous lawsuits with competitors. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The diminished list of competitors for silvan fame still amounted to eight. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
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