Definition of rivalrous in English:
rivalrous
adjective ˈrʌɪv(ə)lrəsˈrīvəlrəs
Prone to or subject to rivalry.
rivalrous presidential aspirants
Example sentencesExamples
- In other parts of the world, where unitary Empires and not rivalrous states were the norm, such economic transformation did not take place.
- Reflecting the rivalrous aspirations of a tumultuous, multilayered and multicultural society, it voices itself in a multitude of apparently incongruous vocabularies of form.
- Competition is a rivalrous process in which businesses struggle to be the best producers of goods and services.
- As a result, we keep following the cycle of tearing down the old to build new structures of cooperation that carry the rivalrous seeds of its own destruction.
- She was highly competitive and rivalrous and said, ‘I'm going to go talk to your professors.’
- It proves highly conflictual, as the response elicited from other women/mothers/girls is usually disapproving and warning, or alternatively rivalrous.
- Similar hypotheses to our own, derived from assuming oligopolistic or rivalrous behavior, have been a subject of study in the field of international business.
- The perils of distinguishing true predatory behaviour from beneficial rivalrous behaviour mean that the threshold for regulatory intervention should be high.