competition

Meanings

• a business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers
  • "business competition can be fiendish at times"
• an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants
• the act of competing as for profit or a prize
• the contestant you hope to defeat
  • "he wanted to know what the competition was doing"

Synonyms

challenger, competitor, contender, contention, contest, rival, rivalry