competitor

«competitor» in Mova's school dictionary: a person or team taking part in a race, contest or game… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a competitor, competitors)

meaning for a pupil

1) A competitor is a person or team taking part in a race, contest or game, trying to win. tree →

2) A competitor is a business that sells the same kind of thing as another business and tries to get its customers. tree →

sense 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 →
• Each competitor got a number to pin on their shirt. tree →
• The youngest competitor was only eight years old. tree →
• The bakery's main competitor is the new café across the road. tree →
• She shook hands with every competitor after the final. tree →
• There were 12 competitors, and 3 of them won medals. tree →
• The competitors waited nervously for the judges' scores. tree →

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.

In the corpora

• Doping means athletes taking banned drugs to perform better; it cheats honest competitors and can badly harm health.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «competitor» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.