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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Competition \Com'pe*ti"tion\, noun [L. competition. See {Compete}.] The act of seeking, or endeavoring to gain, what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time; common strife for the same objects; strife for superiority; emulous contest; rivalry, as for approbation, for a prize, or as where two or more persons are engaged in the same business and each seeking patronage; -- followed by for before the object sought, and with before the person or thing competed with.
Competition to the crown there is none, nor can be. --Bacon.
A portrait, with which one of Titian's could not come in competition. --Dryden.
There is no competition but for the second place. --Dryden.
Where competition does not act at all there is complete monopoly. --A. T. Hadley.
Syn: Emulation; rivalry; rivalship; contest; struggle; contention; opposition; jealousy. See {Emulation}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
competition
noun
1: a business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers; "business competition can be fiendish at times"
2: an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants [syn: {contest}]
3: the act of competing as for profit or a prize; "the teams were in fierce contention for first place" [syn: {contention}, {rivalry}] [ant: {cooperation}]
4: the contestant you hope to defeat; "he had respect for his rivals"; "he wanted to know what the competition was doing" [syn: {rival}, {challenger}, {competitor}, {contender}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
51 Moby Thesaurus words for "competition": antagonism, antipathy, bad blood, championship, clashing, collision, competitor, concours, conflict, contention, contest, contrariety, contrariness, corrival, cross-purposes, cutthroat competition, disaccord, dissension, emulation, enmity, event, fractiousness, friction, game, gamesmanship, hostility, inimicalness, jockeying, lifemanship, match, meet, meeting, negativeness, noncooperation, obstinacy, one-upmanship, oppugnancy, perverseness, recalcitrance, refractoriness, rencontre, repugnance, rivalry, strife, striving, struggle, tournament, tug-of-war, uncooperativeness, vying, warfare
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