rival
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3.5
- adjective
- /ˈraɪvəl/
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rival
- The two rival teams fought hard for the championship title.
- rival candidates
- rival parties
- rival politicians
You get all these different rival schools coming out of the Tomist revival.
- You get all these different rival schools coming out of the Tomist revival.
- While the the tariffs seem to be more of a negotiation tactic for a rival nation.
- And so these are two main rival fields, each of which encompasses several different traditions and movements.
- They can't all be right in destroying A rival system, though it destroys the credit of those miracles on which that system was established.
- The CEO of Google does not recommend books to anyone, let alone like the people at rival companies.
Examples
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He's caught in a battle for supremacy between two rival politicians.
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Vladimir is an online video editor who works at the rival video house to Phoebe.
Fiction book (2000) -
The guard had played against Brown on rival high school football teams.
Fiction book (1992) -
The CEO of Google does not recommend books to anyone, let alone like the people at rival companies.
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Such competitive advantage given to rival firms is usually hard to recapture.
Academic text (1991) -
A rival corporation.
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Rawls illustrates this by considering several rival theories of justice.
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This time, Intel decided it would hire from rival Qualcomm and give AMD and NVIDIA a break.
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She has always been a rival artist, competing for attention in the same gallery.
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The rival candidates exchanged heated arguments during the debate.
Synonyms
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Wanting strongly to compete with others
Compounds
How Competitive
Surface Forms
Etymology
Rival comes from Latin rivalis, which named someone who used the same riva 'bank' or 'stream' as another, so two people near the same river often competed; that's why rival as an adjective means 'competing'.