Noun
1. a business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers;
"business competition can be fiendish at times"2. an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants
3. the act of competing as for profit or a prize;
"the teams were in fierce contention for first place"4. the contestant you hope to defeat;
"he had respect for his rivals""he wanted to know what the competition was doing"