Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, involving, or determined by competition: competitive games.
- adj. Liking competition or inclined to compete: a highly competitive teammate.
- adj. Biochemistry Relating to the inhibition of enzyme activity that results from the reversible combination of an enzyme with an alternate compound and prevents normal substrate binding.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to or involving competition; characterized by or requiring competition; competing.
Wiktionary
- adj. economics capable of competing successfully
- adj. of or pertaining to competition
- adj. inclined to compete
- adj. biochemistry inhibiting the action of an enzyme by binding with it
- adj. euphemistically cheap, especially used of quality products
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to competition; producing competition; competitory.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. showing a fighting disposition
- adj. involving competition or competitiveness
- adj. subscribing to capitalistic competition
Examples
“The titfer is tipped to Word Spy who spotlighted the term competitive commuting.”
“No. I'm not going to say but we think the vast majority of our products are what we call competitive which is either at or below anywhere else you can find them.”
“The New York Fed, working with a unit of BlackRock Inc., will sell the securities individually and in portions "over time as market conditions warrant" through what they called a competitive sales process.”
The Wall Street Journal: Fed to Sell Subprime-Mortgage Bonds From AIG Bailout
“I look back on my experience at camp as being quite instrumental in leading me toward what I call competitive appreciation for associating with other people: having standards set for you, set by other people, or standards you would set for yourself.”
“But it will be seen to apply in its essentials to what we call competitive industry.”
“We're going to play big," insists Axelrod, already offering up what he called competitive poll data from Republican-leaning states like Indiana, North Carolina and Virginia.”
“At issue is an extended power agreement, what he described as a competitive labor contract, and stable aluminum prices.”
“Thune says his campaign will continue raising money to prepare for what he calls a competitive election in 2010.”
“That's what I call a competitive edge for the province of New Brunswick.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘competitive’.
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
A combined list of
1. EU Buzz - single words
2. EU Buzz - collocations
3. EU Buzz - the 100 most active
collocation constituentsabsorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 2650 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...health, follow, condition, meeting, minister, beginning, chapter, information, language, remain, covered, respect and 2614 more...
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EU Buzz - 100 most active collocation...
The 100 most frequent constituents of EU collocations. People working for the EU are able to complete any of these words to a multiple-word expression with ease. Try it out if you are one! For a gr...
accession, acquis, act, action, agenda, agreement, aid, area, assistance, association, base, budget and 88 more...
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abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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The Medley of Me
A jumble of words, sometimes contradictory, that add up to me. I'll probably be adding to this list for some time, because I'm a very complex individual. ;P
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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feeling words
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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deegee's Words
pay-per-view, vitriol, delectable, snarky, unflinching, forsake, pervasive, inconsequential, unnerving, allure, endearing, unalloyed and 414 more...
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postmodernism, cat, fish, rabbit, dell, coffee, elearning, mazda, php, mysql, flash, blogger and 755 more...
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cycling words
intensity, activity, group, impact, require, motivated, co-ordination, course, performance, stationary, outdoors, key elements and 2 more...
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Personality, Mateusz
affectionate, aggressive, ambitious, bossy, charming, competitive, independent, jealous, manipulative, moody, reliable, selfish and 4 more...
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To Marji
compote, baker, pie, traveller, nurse, mother hen, executive, berkeley, seattle, friend, denver, punctilious and 55 more...
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Runon's list
Words that describe the sights and sounds and emotions of running, riding, racing swimming
click, breathe, breath, gasp, pant, sprint, burn, firey, adrenaline, pound, rhythm, speed and 9 more...
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