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Competition vs. Battle

Difference Between Competition and Battle

Competition

Competition is a rivalry where two or more parties strive for a common goal which cannot be shared: where one's gain is the other's loss (an example of which is a zero-sum game). Competition can arise between entities such as organisms, individuals, economic and social groups, etc.
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Battle

A battle is an occurrence of combat in warfare between opposing military units of any number or size. A war usually consists of multiple battles.
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Competition

The act of competing, as for profit or a prize; rivalry.
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Battle

A fight between two armed forces, usually on a large scale
an important battle in the Pacific campaign.
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Competition

A test of skill or ability; a contest
a skating competition.
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Battle

Armed fighting; combat
wounded in battle.
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Competition

Rivalry between two or more businesses striving for the same customer or market.
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Battle

A match between two combatants
trial by battle.
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Competition

A competitor
The competition has cornered the market.
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Battle

A protracted controversy or struggle
won the battle of the budget.
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Competition

(Ecology) The simultaneous demand by two or more organisms for a limited environmental resource, such as nutrients, living space, or light.
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Battle

An intense competition
a battle of wits.
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Competition

(uncountable) The action of competing.
The competition for this job is strong.
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Battle

To engage in or as if in battle.
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Competition

(countable) A contest for a prize or award.
The newspaper is featuring a competition to win a car.
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Battle

To fight against
battled the enemy.
battled cancer.
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Competition

The competitors in such a contest.
The new stain remover was ten times more effective than the competition.
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Battle

A contest, a struggle.
the battle of life
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Competition

The act of seeking, or endeavoring to gain, what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time; common strife for the same objects; strife for superiority; emulous contest; rivalry, as for approbation, for a prize, or as where two or more persons are engaged in the same business and each seeking patronage; - followed by for before the object sought, and with before the person or thing competed with.
Competition to the crown there is none, nor can be.
A portrait, with which one of Titian's could not come in competition.
There is no competition but for the second place.
Where competition does not act at all there is complete monopoly.
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Battle

(military) A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; a combat, an engagement.
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Competition

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

A division of an army; a battalion.
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Competition

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

The main body of an army, as distinct from the vanguard and rear; the battalia.
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Competition

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

battle buddy
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Competition

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

(intransitive) To join in battle; to contend in fight
Scientists always battle over theories.
She has been battling against cancer for years.
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Battle

(transitive) To fight or struggle; to enter into a battle with.
She has been battling cancer for years.
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Battle

To feed or nourish (someone or something).
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Battle

To render (land, soil, etc.) fertile or fruitful.
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Battle

Improving; nutritious; fattening.
battle grass, battle pasture
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Battle

Fertile; fruitful.
battle soil, battle land
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Battle

A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an engagement; a combat.
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Battle

A struggle; a contest; as, the battle of life.
The whole intellectual battle that had at its center the best poem of the best poet of that day.
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Battle

A division of an army; a battalion.
The king divided his army into three battles.
The cavalry, by way of distinction, was called the battle, and on it alone depended the fate of every action.
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Battle

The main body, as distinct from the van and rear; battalia.
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Battle

To join in battle; to contend in fight; as, to battle over theories.
To meet in arms, and battle in the plain.
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Battle

To assail in battle; to fight.
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Battle

a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war;
Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga
he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement
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Battle

an energetic attempt to achieve something;
getting through the crowd was a real struggle
he fought a battle for recognition
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Battle

an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals);
the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph
police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs
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Battle

battle or contend against in or as if in a battle;
The Kurds are combating Iraqi troops in Nothern Iraq
We must combat the prejudices against other races
they battled over the budget
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