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What does competition mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) The action of competing.
  2. (countable) A contest for a prize or award.
  3. (uncountable, collectively) The competitors in such a contest.
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They joined Sunderland and Middlesbrough in crashing out of the competition at the third-round stage this season.
At a meeting which followed the World Cup, the International Cricket Conference agreed to make the competition a quadrennial event.
This multiplicity of outlets work like carpet bombs that leave very little empty space for competition to be comfortable.
India and Pakistan jointly hosted the 1987 tournament, the first time that the competition was held outside England.
Fourth, there exists a strong competition on the side of purely astronomical means for indirect detection of gravitational waves.
Somehow the debate devolved into a petty competition to see who could get more applause.

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