 | Virginia State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1903 - 470 pages
...is a benefit to society. What is competition? It comes from the Latin competere, to seek, and means "the act of seeking, or endeavoring to gain, what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time; strife for the same object; strife for superiority; emulous contest," etc. When does this strife in... | |
 | Jay Newman, Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion - Philosophy - 1989 - 249 pages
...advice of a "psychological committee," which provided them with the following definitions: Competition: the act of seeking or endeavoring to gain what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time; Cooperation: the act of working together to one end. To these preliminary definitions was added a third:... | |
 | Daniel R. Ernst - Business & Economics - 1995 - 366 pages
...dissent. Judge Henry Clay Caldwell turned to the Century Dictionary to define competition as an "endeavor to gain what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time." The coopers' boycott, Caldwell claimed, fell well within that definition and was not actionable.37... | |
 | Margaret Mead - Social Science - 2002 - 582 pages
...and such a manner. From the psychological committee we had the following definitions: Competition: the act of seeking or endeavoring to gain what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time. Cooperation: the act of working together to one end. We are interested in competitive and cooperative... | |
 | Edward O. Wilson - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 746 pages
...the concept of competition could not be more useful in biology if it were more strictly limited to "seeking, or endeavoring to gain, what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time," the first meaning given in Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition, Unabridged. It is... | |
 | Carriers - 1960 - 132 pages
...which we are most concerned therefore in our profession. Now, what is it 1 What is competition 1 It is the act of seeking or endeavoring to gain what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time; it is common strife for the same object; strife for superiority; emulous contest ; rivalry for approbation... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1912 - 538 pages
...striving to obtain it. The primary definition of competition, according to the Century Dictionary, is "the act of seeking or endeavoring to gain what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time; common contest, or the striving for the same object." Industrial competition, then, must be defined... | |
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The struggle between rivals for the same trade at the same time ; the act of seeking or endeavoring to gain what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time. 
