Translation
to compete
Word origin
From Latin concurrere, to run together, built from con, with, and currere, to run. English concur and concurrent come from the same verb, having kept the older sense of running alongside.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- concurrere
- English cognates
- concur, concurrent, course
Examples
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Ten schools competed in the contest.
; .
We do not want to compete with you; we want to work together.
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Two shops are competing for the same market.
is to compete: to be after the same prize, customer or place as
somebody else. You a rival and the thing at stake.
The family around it is worth learning as a set, because the three nouns are not interchangeable:
- a formal competition you enter, with entries and a jury. A writing competition, a music competition.- competition in the commercial sense, the pressure of rivals in a market.konkuranto- a competitor, the person doing the competing.
English collapses all of that into "competition", which is why English speakers
reach for when they mean and produce a sentence about
the local bakery entering a talent show.
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