the competition

noun

: a person or group that one is trying to succeed against : a person or group that one is competing with

He sized up the competition looking to see who his toughest opponent would likely be.

Don't let the competition know our trade secrets.

In my opinion, this restaurant has no competition. It's so much better that all the others.

Examples of the competition in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

As the winds whipped across the seaside links-style layout, the competition heated up. —Tim Corlett, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025

Ordinarily, the competition body requires grounds to have a minimum capacity of 8,000. —Pol Ballus, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025

During the closed beta, which only offered about 16 hours of total gameplay spread across the weekend’s sessions, the competition was brutal. —Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025

In that respect, Thompson is perfect, playing Hedda as a stealth socialite ninja who’s always one step ahead of the competition. —Damon Wise, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2025

Rhymes for the competition

• academician
• cycloaddition
• decomposition
• diagnostician
• disinhibition
• indisposition
• interposition
• juxtaposition
• mathematician
• metacognition
• metaphysician
• neurotransmission