0 present 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.
In particular, problems of coexistence and exclusion of competing species have been theoretically investigated using models based on partial and ordinary differential equations.
Experiments with doubly driven film flow, in which gravitational and surface tension gradient stresses are competing, have uncovered some new phenomena.
Factor structure and clinical validity of competing models of positive symptoms in schizophrenia.
