Meanings
present singular third person competites · participle present competiting · participle past competited · past competited
- intransitivenonstandardrarechiefly non-native speakers' EnglishTo compete.
My idea is to use XML::Trivial, but I want to be honest and I don't want to competite with XML::Simple, which is intended for other cases.
2006 March 30, [Jan Poslušný] <paj...@gmail.com>, “Ask for namespace”, in perl.modules (Usenet)2 more examples
If someone find^([sic]) himself too poor to competite with those J students in the job market, I don't know what I can say. I know quite a few students who just can not find any job, that is their problem.
1989 November 23, Yang Shen, “The other reflection of HR2712”, in soc.culture.taiwan (Usenet)Mr. Beaver, IMHO, it's VERY dangerous to competite against standard - based computers using proprietary bus and OS. Without some _STANDARD_ for industry protocols...
1993 December 7, [Anatoly M. Lisovsky] <Anatoly.Lisovsky@kamaz.kazan.su>, “Need info on SPARCstation clone maker”, in comp.sys.sun.misc (Usenet)
Origin
Back-formation from competition.
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