 | John Boag - English language - 1848 - 816 pages
...COMPETITION, ktm-pe-tish'in, n. The act of seeking, or endeavouring to gain, what another Is endeavouring to gain, at the same time; rivalry; mutual strife for the same object; also, strife for superiority, A state of rivalshlp; a state of having equal claims. Double claim; claim of more than one to the same... | |
 | Noah Webster - English language - 1857 - 1310 pages
...€OM-P£TING. ppr. Striving in rivalry. eOM.PE-TTTlON, n. JLow L. competitio.} 1. The net of •coking, or endeavoring to gain, what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time ; mutual strife for the same object ; aUo, strife for superiority. 2. A state of riv&Uhip; a state... | |
 | Alfred B. Westrup - Money - 1895 - 208 pages
..."Twentieth Century,"* "is but a civilized mode of warfare." The "Century Dictionary" defines it as: "i. The act of seeking or endeavoring to gain what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time; common contest or striving for the same object; rivalry; as the competition of two candidates for an... | |
 | William John Tossell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1919 - 750 pages
...competitive means pertaining to or involving competition ; which means, as defined by the Century Dictionary, "The act of seeking or endeavoring to gain what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time." If two persons are endeavoring to gain the same thing at the same time, the essence of competition... | |
 | Labor - 1898 - 1026 pages
...ue used as a weapon of competition, or consist with it. Competition is defined to be an " endeavor to gain what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time.'' (Cent. Diet.) In such a struggle the boycott is perfectly legitimate. It is resorted to by great corporations... | |
 | New Hampshire - New Hampshire - 1899 - 1244 pages
...not be used as a weapon of competition, or consist with it. Competition is denned to be an "endeavor to gain what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time." (Cent. Diet.) In such a struggle the boycott is perfectly legitimate. It is resorted to by great corporations... | |
 | New York (State). Commerce Commission - Commerce - 1900 - 1192 pages
...charges upon transportation, and the one and the same thing. Competition, according to Webster, is " the act of seeking, or endeavoring to gain what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time." To divide, as given by Webster, is " to make partition of among a number." To illustrate the moaning... | |
 | Economics - 1901 - 766 pages
...dictionaries and read the definitions there given, we shall find something like this in each one of them : " The act of seeking or endeavoring to gain what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time ; common contest or striving for the same object ; strife for superiority ; rivalry." (Century Dictionary.)... | |
 | Richard Theodore Ely - Economics - 1903 - 528 pages
...dictionaries and read the definitions there given, we shall find something like this in each one of them, "The act of seeking or endeavoring to gain what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time ; common contest, or striving for the same object ; strife for superiority ; rivalry " (" Century Dictionary").... | |
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The struggle between rivals for the same trade at the same time ; the act of seeking or endeavoring to gain what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time. 
