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say it: kahm-puh-TISH-uhn
competition is a noun meaning "a business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers". It carries 4 recorded senses.
a business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers
“business competition can be fiendish at times”
an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants
the act of competing as for profit or a prize
“the teams were in fierce contention for first place”
the contestant you hope to defeat
“he had respect for his rivals”
“he wanted to know what the competition was doing”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for competition come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.