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# competitor

noun (a competitor, competitors)

«competitor» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A competitor is a person or team taking part in a race, contest or game, trying to win. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/competitor/#m1)
2. A competitor is a business that sells the same kind of thing as another business and tries to get its customers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/competitor/#m2)

### In the lessons

In sport and school events it names everyone taking part; in stories about business it names a rival shop or company. Maths problems often count competitors or give their times and scores to compare. Phrases: fellow competitor, main competitor, the competitors lined up.

### Examples

- Forty competitors started the cross-country race. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/competitor/#x1)
- Each competitor got a number to pin on their shirt. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/competitor/#x2)
- The youngest competitor was only eight years old. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/competitor/#x3)
- The bakery's main competitor is the new café across the road. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/competitor/#x4)
- She shook hands with every competitor after the final. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/competitor/#x5)
- There were 12 competitors, and 3 of them won medals. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/competitor/#x6)
- The competitors waited nervously for the judges' scores. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/competitor/#x7)

### Note

Countable: a competitor, competitors. Spelling ends in «-or». Related words: compete (verb), competition (noun), competitive (adjective). In maths: «12 competitors, 3 won medals» — those without medals = 12 − 3 = 9.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «competitor» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/competitor/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«competitor» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/competitor.html) on Mova free.