I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bitter rival/enemy (= a rival/enemy who you have strong feelings of dislike or anger about )
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The two men are bitter rivals for the party leadership.
a rival gang
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Fighting between rival gangs left dozens of people injured.
chief rival
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his chief rival for the job
rival/opposing/opposition fans (= fans who support different teams competing against each other )
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There were fights between rival fans outside the stadium.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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It narrowly beat much bigger rival and fellow supermarkets group J Sainsbury to the top slot, and outshone Tesco.
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Smith Barney still lags its six biggest rivals in investment banking -- Merrill Lynch&038;.
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Its big rival , Stamps.com, also laid off 240 employees last month in a bid to streamline operations.
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Small banks are raising them in an attempt to steal customers from their bigger rivals .
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My friend in the business pointed out that his guitar had a slimmer neck than its big rival .
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Its surplus assets have stirred the interest of bigger rivals .
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Avis's advantage may not last long: most of its big rivals are also spending heavily on information technology.
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Its three big domestic rivals do not intend to cut and run either.
bitter
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Early returns show bitter rival and outgoing President Slobodan Milosevic well ahead in the race.
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Six teams are bitter rivals in what will be a fight to the finish.
chief
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Its chief international rival , Advanced Micro Devices, is also in Penang.
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Taylor and his chief rival , Alhaji Kromah, have announced they will run for president.
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His chief rival for the nomination, Sen.
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He stayed in office for two terms, a record 14 years, longer than did his chief rival , Gen.
close
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Rothmans maintained an average of 14.2 knots throughout the morning while most of her close rivals slowed.
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As a result its leading members seem chiefly interested in backstabbing their closest rivals .
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Cramant, Avize, le Mesnil-sur-Oger and Oger are close rivals for the production of the best Chardonnay.
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His close rival , the Maharaja of Rewa, reached a total of 500 and then withdrew from the contest.
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He won 298 of 484 valid votes against 155 for his closest rival , the former prime minister Ryutaro Hashimoto.
great
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Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario positively demolished her opponents with a ruthlessness reminiscent of Navratilova's great rival of the 1980's, Chris Evert.
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It also fortified imperialist competition: each Great Power rival was now backed by popular support.
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Kasparov - Karpov Ruy Lopez Kasparov is building up an excellent score against his great rival with this move.
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Why should such an unimportant jewel be first in Topaz's hands, then on the wrist of her greatest rival ?
local
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Formby suffered a crushing 10 wicket defeat at home to local rivals Southport.
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After that it looked like they would trample all over their local rivals .
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To have lost a game against the local rivals that should have been sewn up was bad enough.
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As such it may emerge as Televisa's main local rival .
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Willington picked up their second win in three games with a 3-2 win over local rivals Crook Town.
main
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Swapo and its main rival , the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance, have accused each other of violent intimidation during the campaign.
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Wilson declared, aware that Means, his main political rival on Pine Ridge, intended to run for his own job.
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Harkin nevertheless won all of the state's delegates since none of his four main rivals reached 15 percent.
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His main rival has been tuning up on Burford golf course.
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Stockton, a game in hand, emerged as Wearside's main rivals .
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The parliament chairman, Ruslan Khasbulatov, Mr Yeltsin's main rival , denied the assembly was concentrating power in its hands.
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Mr Jereissati's main rival so far is Jose Serra, the health minister.
near
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In January, polls showed Dole was leading his nearest rival by 23 percentage points.
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Their hosts are Halstead's nearest rivals for survival.
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But if Nader is having problems capturing the magical double-digit support level, his nearest third-party rivals are floundering in his wake.
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With their nearest rival , Tesco, they've become far and away the most popular places to do the weekly shop.
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They were well ahead of nearest rival Nabarro Nathanson, which employs 145 solicitors.
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The Golf GTi and its nearest rival .
old
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Standing in their way are old rivals Bath.
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Only one person stood in his way: Thad Cochran, his old rival from Mississippi.
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He replaced eating cornflakes with continually inviting Angela out to dinner in an effort to win her away from his old rival .
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She meets her old rival , Miss Le Moignan.
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Among these were the Bruces, whose lands he handed to their old rivals , the Comyns.
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She could wear shorter dresses than her older rivals , an advantage in court coverage.
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It is also an old rival of Dornier.
political
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His lifelong political rival , the charismatic, unlettered Eric Gairy, mocked Blaize's kindly manner as weakness.
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The monarch's potential as a political rival is an issue of which Iliescu is only too aware.
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But Yeltsin faced new criticism from his political rivals .
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At least seven canvassers were reportedly shot dead by political rivals during the campaign.
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Wilson declared, aware that Means, his main political rival on Pine Ridge, intended to run for his own job.
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Once elected, he had too many job-hungry party supporters to waste important posts on political rivals .
potential
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But in the long term the Daim resignation demonstrates again the failure of Mahathir to accept a potential rival .
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His potential Democratic rival in four years, Rep.
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They are potential rivals , maybe eventual allies, in the Democratic primary.
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Billed as a potential rival to Gleneagles, the development was to cost £60m in total.
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While Yeltsin was sidelined, potential rivals engaged in a fierce jockeying for power.
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But he could be generous, even to potential rivals .
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Kerrey is considered a potential rival of Gore in the next presidential contest.
serious
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Bismarck, who saw in Waldersee a serious rival , disliked this development, but was powerless to reverse it.
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Harold summoned the group, secure in his belief that a watchmaker can be no serious rival for Esther.
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He knows that he has no serious rival for the job.
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And he was ever so pleased - puffed and strutted like Joe Brown had a serious rival .
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None of the men were serious rivals , though; at least, he had thought not, until this moment.
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Eight years ago Fuchs had been Beeren's only serious rival for the appointment.
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They have defeated their only serious rival - socialist ideology.
■ NOUN
firm
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But the battles in each market are as often against nationalism as against rival firms .
■ VERB
beat
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It narrowly beat much bigger rival and fellow supermarkets group J Sainsbury to the top slot, and outshone Tesco.
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But Tsongas turned those views around when he came out on top, beating rival Clinton in the New Hampshire primary.
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Champagne Lover was backed from 16-1 to 2-1 and beat 18 rivals by 12 lengths.
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Manufacturers were looking at different techniques in an effort to beat off their rivals .
face
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Equities also face two stiff rivals as a destination for domestic investors' capital.
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The girls have four days to recover from the California trip before facing their state rival in Mac Court.
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Even a dominant firm will face rivals seeking to find a window of opportunity to chip away at the dominant position.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The cult of Mithras was Christianity's main rival at the time of Constantine.
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The fight started as an argument between rival gang members.
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The two teams have always been rivals.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As with the tiger it is the male's warning to rivals to stay off its home range.
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He knows that he has no serious rival for the job.
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Like Medea, she plots revenge on her rival , the bride-to-be, and threatens her own child.
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Mr Reaves claims the industry connections and combined experience give his funds an edge over rivals in picking turnaround candidates.
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Police and prosecutors, especially those in the pay of rival cartels, have been a special Arellano target.
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So far no rivals have matched the rave reviews E ma won for the film.
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Sorry, Clinton only switched running mates for the evening to poke fun at Republican rival George Bush.
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They do not have to do down rivals in order to benefit themselves.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Chef Shawn's apple pie rivals the best I've tasted.
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The new aeroplane would rival its competitors in terms of noise, range and versatility.
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The prince built a vast palace, rivalling Versailles in size and opulence.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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No other category of asset came close to rivalling that performance.
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Organisers claim that the event will rival , if not eclipse, this year's Tall Ships extravaganza.
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The weathermen said the storm had rivalled summer hurricanes in its intensity.