competition

Noun

• the contestant you hope to defeat
  • he had respect for his rivals
    
  • he wanted to know what the competition was doing
    

• the act of competing as for profit or a prize
  • the teams were in fierce contention for first place
    

• an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants

• a business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers
  • business competition can be fiendish at times
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  rival , challenger , competitor , contender , contention , rivalry , contest