competingcom‧pet‧ing /kəmˈpiːtɪŋ/ adjective [only before noun] - An alternative approach is to recognise the possibility of a more broadly-based balancing of the competing interests involved.
- As there are too few places, comparison between competing claims is necessary.
- I thought it would be fascinating to watch two such competing impulses in the same woman and in women of different classes.
- Last week's meeting in Paris presented the results of a two-year study of the competing projects.
- Many perceived the affair as a struggle between the competing claims of parents and teachers over the education of the child.
- Similarly radicals overstate the degree of unanimity among the medical profession, which is in fact riven with dissension and competing ideologies.
- The senior staff have many competing responsibilities.
- They were for ever breaking up each other's fish-weirs and quarrelling over competing interests in pasture and peat cutting.
► competing accounts Several people gave competing accounts of the accident. ► competing interests a compromise between competing interests within the organization ► competing claims· the competing claims of the political parties
► competing products/brands/companies etc- A simple comparison of total estimated income from the competing products may provide as good a guide to decision making.
- Being a suspicious soul I also ran a competing companies test disk on the system.
- Invariably, the own-brand range is offered at lower prices than the competing brands.
- Price is now the main factor differentiating competing brands.
- They do not adjust their shopping list to take advantage of price fluctuations among competing products.
- This analysis will use recently developed techniques for measuring the competitiveness of a product amongst a group of similar competing products.
nouncompetitioncompetitorcompetitivenessadjectivecompetitive ≠ uncompetitivecompetingverbcompeteadverbcompetitively