Meaning & use
Competing
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Striving against others to achieve or win something; also used adjectivally to describe things that conflict with one another.
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The two companies are competing fiercely for market share.
She had to weigh competing demands on her time between work and family.
A note on using this word
Competing can describe both literal rivalry, as in sports or business, and abstract conflict, as in 'competing interests' or 'competing theories.'
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Words with an opposite meaning
cooperatingcollaborating
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