to beat off the competition
- phrasal verb
:
superar a la competencia
- The company beat off the competition and secured the lucrative contract.
Examples
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Last year, she managed to beat off the competition and claim first prize.
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She beats off the competition with her innovative ideas.
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After months of preparation, the team finally beat off the competition to win the championship.
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The company beat off the competition last year.
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With innovative marketing strategies, the startup beat off the competition and became a market leader.
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The athlete trained rigorously to beat off the competition in the national championships.
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To secure the best deals, the small business had to beat off the competition from larger firms.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To beat others in a contest or game
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1.4
To defeat another person or team in a contest
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3.4
Do better than others, for example at work or school
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3.7
To keep away an attack, illness, or strong unwanted feeling
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3.8
Defeat others in a contest to win a job or prize
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4.2
To defeat someone in a contest or game
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5.3
To defeat someone by using their own methods
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6.1
To do better than someone or something and win
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8.1
Make animals or people who attack you go away
Defeat an opponent easily in a game or contest
Do much better than other companies or teams
To beat other teams or companies by a lot
Be better than someone or something in a competition
To try to be better than someone in a contest or task
Get an advantage over other companies or people
To get an advantage over someone by doing better than them
Antonyms
How Dominant
Surface Forms
Morphology
beat + off + the + competition
The overall sense 'defeat rivals' follows directly from 'beat' (to win) combined with 'competition' (rivals), so a learner who knows those words can often infer the meaning. However, the particle 'off' creates a phrasal-verb nuance ('beat off' = repel/defeat) and particles are partly idiomatic and can have other senses, so the relation is not fully predictable without exposure.
Etymology
The phrasal verb beat off the competition comes from the picture of someone in a fight beating off attackers by hitting them so they go away. That's why to beat off the competition means 'to drive away' rivals and 'win'.