1 eager to do better than others in an activity, esp. trying to win in a sports activity:
2 involving or encouraging competition:
3 competitive prices, services, etc. are as good as or better than other prices, services, etc.:
We can't put up our prices and still remain competitive with similar brands.
The hotel works hard to offer competitive salaries and benefits to our employees.
We know we have competitive products to sell, if only consumers had access to them.
The technology exists to convert grain and sugar to ethanol at a competitive price.
Herding instincts and trainability can be measured at noncompetitive herding tests.
Competitive imperatives drive firms' choices of strategy and may, as we illustrate later on, have little to do with short-run considerations of national economic factors.
Competitive innovation has proved decisive in many industries over the last two decades in determining which firms assume leadership positions and which disappear.
As a response to the brutal competitive individualism which is fashionable today, this proposal is understandable.
Rather than being celebrated as proof of the competitive merits of democratic elitism, such an outcome may create convulsions or reduce national economic performance.
The marginal effect was slightly smaller in 1989, suggesting that hospitals in more competitive areas may have reallocated resources into administrative services.
In general, the different approaches can be seen as complementary rather than competitive.
Establishment of the maternal-fetal interface is extremely competitive among littermates in early swine gestation.
