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Definition of Competes
1. compete [v] - See also: compete
Lexicographical Neighbors of Competes
Literary usage of Competes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ruling Case Law as Developed and Established by the Decisions and by William Mark McKinney, Burdett Alberto Rich (1917)
"... it in no way competes with his master's business, and does not conflict with
the duties he owes the master.18 It has been held that where a laborer ..."
2. Agricultural Economics: A Selection of Materials in which Economic by Edwin Griswold Nourse (1916)
"WHEN THE IMMIGRANT competes FOR LAND' BY HA MILLIS The influx of Japanese farmers
into the Northwest has altered the terms upon which land is rented. ..."
3. Great Violinists and Pianists by George Titus Ferris (1881)
"competes for Admittance to the University at Christiania.—Is consoled for Failure
by a Learned Professor.—" Better he a Fiddler than a Preacher. ..."
4. Handbook of the Roman Law by Ferdinand Mackeldey, Moses Aaron Dropsie (1883)
"... competes in such a manner with the actions on these relations that the injured
party has the election which of these actions ho will institute. ..."
5. Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott of Abbotsford: With Selections from His by Robert Ornsby (1884)
"Mr. Hope Interested in Homoeopathy—competes for the Ellerton—Canvass for
Merton—Elected to a Fellowship at Merton College—Correspondence on the Subject with ..."
6. The Worthies of Cumberland by Henry Lonsdale (1867)
"... spares no Expense—his high- priced Cattle—Shorthorns—competes with Sir John
Sinclair—tries Bone and other Fertilizers. ..."
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