0 to compete with other people to achieve or get something: --
[ + to infinitive ] The two groups of scientists are vying to get funding for their research projects.
The two older children tend to vie with the younger one for their mother's attention.
Six candidates are currently vying for the Democratic presidential nomination.
1 to compete: --
Thus, the translation process can be compared to a battlefield where groups with competing and irreconcilable perceptions of reality vied for supremacy.
In the competitive print industry, pamphleteers vied with one another to print the most graphic accounts of the rebels' iniquities.
Each vied for regional leadership and presented themselves as progressive authorities.
Politicians vied for control of government ministries in order to win the right to appoint to lower-level posts throughout the country.
Moreover, leaders would still vie for the party presidency.
There are usually many simultaneous plans and possible actions vying for agent resources-the scheduler creates an appropriate agenda of tasks.
And both vlogs (video blogs) and sound logs (often in the form of podcasts) are already beginning to vie with written blogs.
The regime incumbents and the opposition forces vie with each other for control over the process of institutional reform.