0 past simple and past participle of compete
1 to try to be more successful than someone or something else:
Men and women ought to be able to compete for jobs on an equal footing.
The company lacks the marketing muscle to compete with drug giants.
We're only a small business and don't have the capital to compete with the big boys.
For the magazine to be successful, it will have to compete in the big league against leading weekly women's magazines.
Besides nutrients and light, rice and weeds also competed for water.
They competed in sports, organized clubs and concerts, attended chapel, threw parties and sometimes went to class.
Lead singers now competed for camera attention with their surrounding musicians who had begun to develop their own visual cliches.
