Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To prevail over or surpass (another) under competitive circumstances.
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- verb To be more
successful than acompetitor ; especially tothrive in the presence of an organism that iscompeting forresources
Etymologies
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Examples
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Escaped GM salmon could "outcompete" its wild counterpart by reproducing earlier and threatening its food supply.
GM food battle moves to fish as super-salmon nears US approval Jamie Doward 2010
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- Spend the rest of your life a slave to the banking system because you're STUCK with thousands of dollars of student loans that you had to take out to "outcompete" everybody else.
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The researchers suggest that countries use some of the future revenue generated from auctioning off greenhouse-gas pollution permits to fund these conservation efforts, but Polasky acknowledged it might be hard to "outcompete" other interest groups that will seek to channel these funds to programs such as "green" technology projects or energy subsidies for low-income Americans.
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Now is the time to revamp our education system, demand more from teachers, parents, and students alike, and build schools that prepare every child in America to outcompete any worker in the world.
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At those concentrations they will outcompete all other species.
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There is a tight-knit community of craftspeople in the Hollywood system involved in everything from set design to editing that continue to outcompete low-wage entertainment sectors around the world.
Nathan Newman: How the Googlization of Television Will Destroy High Wage, Union Hollywood Nathan Newman 2012
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This too is a product of brain plasticity: The circuits we use the most get stronger and "outcompete" others.
Never Too Late to Learn Norman Doidge 2012
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Are you going to tell me that a firm that can outcompete 50+ other ideas to catch the eye of a VC is deficient in human capital?
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Road networks look like vascular systems, and both look like computer networks, because interconnected systems outcompete isolated systems.
Boing Boing 2009
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There is a tight-knit community of craftspeople in the Hollywood system involved in everything from set design to editing that continue to outcompete low-wage entertainment sectors around the world.
Nathan Newman: How the Googlization of Television Will Destroy High Wage, Union Hollywood Nathan Newman 2012
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