- a person, company or thing that competes with another in sport, business, etc.
- The two teams have always been rivals.
- Marlowe was Shakespeare's main rival at the beginning of his career.
- the company's nearest/closest rival in the business
- The two men were bitter rivals throughout their careers.
- This latest design has no rivals (= it is easily the best design available).
- rival for something She has no rivals for the job.
- rival to somebody/something Grand it may be, but this cathedral is no rival to the great cathedral of Amiens.
Extra Examples- The Japanese are our biggest economic rivals.
- He eliminated his rivals with brutal efficiency.
- She is now regarded as the greatest potential rival to Hu.
- The business needed to revive profits and compete with new rivals.
- The company faces big rivals in Europe and Asia.
- The company is well equipped to compete with its international rivals.
- They were rivals for her love.
- They wind up as romantic rivals for the same woman.
- They're old political rivals.
- Those two have been friendly rivals since they first met.
- In France and England, a new king often had to fight rivals for the succession to the throne.
- Their friendship ended when the two men became rivals for the same woman.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- bitter
- close
- deadly
- …
- have
- face
- beat
- …
- candidate
- clan
- faction
- …
- rival for
- rival in
- rival to
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Word Originlate 16th cent.: from Latin rivalis, originally in the sense ‘person using the same stream as another’, from rivus ‘stream’.Want to learn more?
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