Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

self-competition

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.75 in modern English

Syllables: self---com-pe-ti-tion
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

7

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Competition between retailers, products or services owned by the same brand.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"However, when our product is required to compete with itself by the reckless and irresponsible commercial conduct of price cutters, our ability to compete diminishes. This self-competition among different outlets for the same branded product is morbid competition, a perverse corruption of the concept of competition itself which leads to its destruction."

Etymology

From self- + competition.

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does self-competition mean?: Competition between retailers, products or services owned by the same brand.
Where does self-competition come from?: From self- + competition.

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