Competition /(?)/

Com·pe·ti·tion

Competition

n.
  1. The act of seeking, or endeavoring to gain, what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time; common strife for the same objects; strife for superiority; emulous contest; rivalry, as for approbation, for a prize, or as where two or more persons are engaged in the same business and each seeking patronage; -- followed by for before the object sought, and with before the person or thing competed with.
    Competition to the crown there is none, nor can be.
    A portrait, with which one of Titian's could not come in competition.
    There is no competition but for the second place.
    Where competition does not act at all there is complete monopoly.
    — A. T. Hadley.