compete

See also: competé

English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “compete”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin competere, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) petō.

Pronunciation

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Verb

compete (third-person singular simple present competes, present participle competing, simple past and past participle competed)

1. To contend emulously; to seek or strive for the same thing, position, or reward for which another is striving; to contend in rivalry, as for a prize or in business; as, tradesmen compete with one another.

Usage notes

A person will compete for a prize received for winning a competition. Two persons compete against one another if they are rivals. Two persons can compete with each other as teammates, however compete with is also used to indicate two persons competing against each other.

Derived terms

Terms derived from compete

• competitor

• competition

• noncompete

Translations

to contend

• Arabic: تنافس (tanaafasa)
• Armenian: մրցել (mrcʻel)
• Bulgarian: състезавам се (sǎstezavam se), съревновавам се (sǎrevnovavam se), съпернича (sǎperniča)
• Catalan: competir
• Chinese: Template:zh-tsp
• Czech: soutěžit, konkurovat
• Danish: Konkurrere
• Dutch: wedijveren
• French: rivaliser (fr)
• German: wettkämpfen, streiten (de)
• Hebrew: התחרה (hitkhará)
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• Hungarian: versenyez (hu)
• Italian: competere, gareggiare
• Japanese: 争う (arasou), 競争する (kyōsō-suru), 張り合う (hariau)
• Malayalam: മത്സരിയ്ക്കുക (malsarikkuka)
• Polish: konkurować
• Portuguese: competir (pt)
• Russian: соревноваться (ru) (sorevnovát'sja), состязаться (sostjazát'sja), конкурировать (ru) (konkurírovat')
• Spanish: competir (es)
• Swahili:
• Swedish: tävla (sv), konkurrera (sv)

External links

• “compete”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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Italian

Verb

compete

1. third-person singular present tense of competere

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) compete

1. (deprecated template usage) second-person singular present active imperative of competō