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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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The next biggest competitor , Royal, charges no commission.
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Home Depot is a big competitor .
close
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But our economy is still over twice as large as our closest competitor .
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Verio currently operates nearly three times as many business Web sites as its closest competitor .
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And indeed, the closest competitor a creature is ever likely to meet is a member of its own species.
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The closest competitor the whole day was Arpaio, who earlier typed 44 words per minute.
direct
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Only businesses that are direct competitors are excluded.
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Local office suppliers, however, are not too worried because the company is not seen as a direct competitor .
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For example, the Vines operating system from Banyan, a direct competitor of Netware, is based on Unix.
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In particular the company is hoping to position TeamWorks Office as a direct competitor to Lotus Notes.
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In a sense, we do not feel we have any direct competitor in Paris.
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Hence the mink is not so much a threat to the muskrat population as a direct competitor with muskrat trappers.
foreign
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Once again, we shall be in the hands of our foreign competitors .
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They do not control the entire market and are not free from the threat of entry from new firms or foreign competitors .
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Latest export statistics show Britain's grain trade with foreign competitors drastically reduced - while imports are rising.
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In the meantime, foreign competitors are moving ahead of us.
international
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The United States also became a still more potent international competitor in the 1980S - especially in fields such as computers.
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He is a former international competitor and continues to coach athletes and teams to international level in a number of sports.
main
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Exports have increased by 66 percent since 1981, better than any of our six main competitors , it points out.
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Q: Who is your main competitor now?
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It will now be using the services of Askews, formerly one of its main competitors .
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It is the first version of the Microsoft browser compatible with the plug-ins of its main competitor , Netscape.
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Tiphook had paid £7.7 million for a 9.9 percent slice of its main competitor .
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Today, on most measures, it's one of the top two, Siemens being the main competitor .
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Why then, people wonder, is inflation so much higher here than in our main competitor countries?
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Its members would effectively have to buy milk supplies from their main competitor .
major
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But Britain still has a huge gap to close on her major competitors .
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If the merger goes through, the only other major competitor to the combined company would be Burlington Northern Santa Fe.
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Some of our major competitors actually forecast that they will exceed bar sales by the early 1990s.
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How does the level of investment in this country compare with that of our major competitors ?
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The spearhead of their sales drive was cooking and water heating, in which their major competitors were the gas boards.
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Price-slashing by Allied and major competitors has wrecked margins, admits boss Tony Hales.
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The report would normally comment on the structure of the sector, the sector output, the major competitors and market shares.
near
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The nearest competitor service was transport information and reservations, at 53%.
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The nearest competitor to the time wine.
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Is the world leader in sales of gin, selling 50% more than its nearest world gin competitor .
new
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But the risks from new competitors and from changing technology or market demand will also be greater.
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Steel's ability to grow. New competitors quickly diminished the company's market dominance.
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As a result profitability was reduced and this was aggravated by the arrival of a number of new competitors .
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The same could happen in San Diego, but even the new competitors are warning against expecting a big price drop.
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Sometimes we have competitors who disappear, but quickly there are new competitors who rise up in their place.
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Unbranded generics spawned new competitors , including several supermarket chains that also sold Clean Keeper products.
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They want to give new competitors more of a chance, even if it means intervening in the market to do so.
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Its new competitor , the SyQuest SyJet, stores up to 1. 5 gigabytes of data.
other
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Only one of 100 other competitors had had any trouble at the fence.
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On the other hand, the fact that initially g exceeded r would attract other competitors into the industry.
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Targeting particular sectors sounds fine, but other strong competitors may already be targeting the very same areas.
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While not in a heat Jan would be out encouraging the other competitors .
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Whilst doing this you need to avoid the other competitors .
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Like other competitors , he also produced a written explanation, but in Scott's case this was a thirty-page printed booklet.
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No other competitor in any sport has been as consistently good or as unfailingly good natured.
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Inpart, it should be said, this is because there aren't many other competitors .
potential
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It seems that on receipt of the documents, potential competitors were able to consider the implications and appreciate the pit-falls.
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Each firmlet offers a single offering to customers, an offering which has a unique set of potential customers and competitors .
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Competition Details about actual and potential competitors and their operations. 2.
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If they did fulfil it, surely they must be potential rivals, competitors even in the guise of colleagues.
small
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The rule also sets a stiff economic hurdle for smaller competitors .
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To protect their investment in the trials, the firms do not make the results available to small would-be competitors .
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The process was not unlike that whereby, today, a large corporation might swallow up its smaller competitors .
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They often acquired smaller competitors . 2.
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It's much smaller than its competitors in Bath or Cheltenham, and it's far less reliable than them.
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A small number of competitors at those Games were found to have smoked marijuana recently.
strong
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That said, Home Run was a strong competitor in the market, with a quirky eye.
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To be sure, Kirin is financially stronger than its competitors .
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Targeting particular sectors sounds fine, but other strong competitors may already be targeting the very same areas.
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Five ladies played for the seven-strong county team, and in inter-club matches Henley ladies were, not surprisingly, strong competitors .
successful
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The successful competitor would also receive the usual 5 percent fees on the cost of the work.
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One of the most successful competitors of the past decade has been Valerie Hinson, a retired business analyst from Tennessee.
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He's Britain's most successful competitor and arguably our greatest champion.
■ VERB
beat
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This new capitalism is a cut-throat enterprise: to stay in business you must not only compete with but beat your competitors .
compare
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At 354 grams, it compares favourably with its competitors which lurch towards the 400 mark.
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How effective are our advertising campaigns compared with our competitors ?
face
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Waste Management leads, but faces several sizeable competitors .
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It faced three groupings of competitors across the world and members of each grouping were reorganizing.
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But he faces some powerful competitors .
keep
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The larger a firm becomes the more cost efficient it can become and hence prices can be kept below those competitors .
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It hatched certain fire-triggered seeds, it eliminated intruding tree saplings, it kept the fire-intolerant urban competitors down.
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And, as the reborn Terminal 3 shows, to keep them ahead of their competitors .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Each of these competitors has their eye on the £50,000 prize money.
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If we're going to succeed, we'll have to provide something that our competitors don't.
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One of the competitors hurt her leg during the race.
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The competitors in the 100m sprint are being asked to take their places at the start.
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The competitors tonight come from all over the world.
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Their major competitors are IBM and Sun Microsystems.
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Twenty-seven competitors from around the country will take part in Sunday's monster truck rally.
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Two of the competitors failed to show up for the race.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All competitors in Phoenix, public and private, were using trucks that held 25 cubic yards of garbage.
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But the company sees state regulatory rules shaping up unfavorably for it, as a would-be competitor for residential customers.
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On the other hand, coworkers can also be competitors.
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The airline had withstood the predatory pricing moves of its competitors, and overcome its early loss.
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The nearest competitor service was transport information and reservations, at 53%.
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We are not prepared for it, whereas our competitors are.