Other forms: competitors
A competitor is another company after the same customers, or a person entered in a contest. A direct competitor, our competitors, the competitors line up.
In business, competitor analysis is a standard exercise, and a direct competitor sells much the same thing to much the same people. In sport, competitors are simply the entrants. Note rival, which is warmer and implies a history; and that competitor comes from a Latin verb meaning to strive together, so competitors are literally seeking the same thing side by side.
1nouncompetitorAnother company after the same customers.
“The shop lowered its prices to win customers back from its main competitor.”
2nounenteredA person entered in a contest.
“Each competitor had to swim, cycle and then run to finish the race.”
competitor is a rival.
Latin competitor is one who seeks with, from com plus petere, to seek. Petition, appetite and repeat come from the same seeking, and competition is literally a seeking together.
Latin
competitor
Middle French
compétiteur
English, today
competitor
Borrowed from Middle French compétiteur, from Latin competitor.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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