0 a situation in which people, businesses, etc. compete with each other for the same thing: --
1 a serious and often continuing competition: --
2 a situation in which people, companies, products, etc. are competing with each other: --
The two companies have put old rivalries aside to combine their broadcast, transmission and interactive operations.
rivalry for sth Company culture often pits employees against each other in terms of rivalry for promotion.
rivalry between sb and sb There is considerable rivalry between banks and accountancy firms when it comes to giving corporate financial advice.
This result implies that rivalrous chromatic representations, not the physical differences in stimuli, cause binocular rivalry.
The perceptual alternation results from competing chromatic signals, but are competing receptoral signals from the two eyes necessary for binocular color rivalry?
The ending of the superpower stand-off, however, has aggravated conditions that contribute to ethnic rivalry and tension.
The rivalries that surfaced took shape according to various criteria of social differentiation, including age, gender, wealth, and profession.
This was a strong argument in a time of growing political rivalry.
We also extended the earlier study by assessing the rivalry rates of 18 subjects with schizophrenia and 18 subjects with major depression.
Local rivalries meant little cooperation between close neighbours over the siting of particular services.
Similarly, membership in organizations with mechanisms for conflict resolution enhances the credibility of commitments and therefore reduces the duration of rivalry.
