competitive

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Oden said employees were told that "to keep the Vise-Grip name competitive, they had to move to China."

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  1. adjective Of, involving, or determined by competition: competitive games.
  2. adjective Liking competition or inclined to compete: a highly competitive teammate.
  3. adjective 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.

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  • Comcast and Time Warner's plan to make Time Warner's content available for free over the Internet to Comcast cable subscribers was attacked by consumer groups June 24 as anti-competitive, anti-consumer and a threat to the open Internet. —  eWeek - RSS Feeds
  • Apple's choices here are anti-competitive, and a lack of competition is bad for consumers, however much it benefits Apple. —  Apple Matters
  • "That's what I call a competitive edge for the province of New Brunswick." —  Top Stories - Google News
  • And if we're not competitive, then who's to blame? —  CNET Australia
  • "This is a non-competitive, self-discipline style of karate," McInturff said. —  The Daily O'Collegian
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  1. from Latin as if *competitivus, from competitus, past participle of competere, compete: see compete.
 

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