\Com`pe*ti"tion\, n. [L. competition. See
{Compete}.]
The act of seeking, or endeavoring to gain, what another is
endeavoring to gain at the same time; common strife for the
same objects; strife for superiority; emulous contest;
rivalry, as for approbation, for a prize, or as where two or
more persons are engaged in the same business and each
seeking patronage; -- followed by for before the object
sought, and with before the person or thing competed with.
      Competition to the crown there is none, nor can be.
                                               --Bacon.
      A portrait, with which one of Titian's could not come
      in competition.                          --Dryden.
      There is no competition but for the second place.
                                               --Dryden.
      Where competition does not act at all there is complete
      monopoly.                                --A. T.
                                               Hadley.
Syn: Emulation; rivalry; rivalship; contest; struggle;
     contention; opposition; jealousy. See {Emulation}.