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Definition: Competitively |
CompetitivelyAdverb1. In competition; "the companies should bid competitively". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Antonym: noncompetitively (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Competitively |
| English words defined with "competitively": emulously. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "competitively": Disintegrins ♦ National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program ♦ Weight Lifting. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Also for several years the GOG has been purchasing via competitively bid contracts. (references) | |
Also, for several years the GOG has been purchasing via competitively bid contracts. (references) | ||
Foreign companies selling to this market should price products and services competitively. (references) | ||
Economic History | Australia | Accessories which are of a high quality and competitively priced are also in demand. (references) |
Australia | It is important for U.S. exporters to Australia to price their products competitively. (references) | |
Australia | Real estate and office space is similarly cheaper and gas and electricity are competitively priced. (references) | |
Travel | Australia | Air transport has become even more competitively priced with the operation of Virgin Blues on the major air routes. (references) |
Worker Rights | Lesotho | There were cases of unions competitively organizing small numbers of workers in the same sector. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | I firmly believe the critical path to full freedom and equality for America's minorities rests with the ability of minority communities to participate competitively in the free enterprise system. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Competitively" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Competitively" is used about 124 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 124 | 28,785 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "competitively": competitively-determined, competitively-priced. | |
Ending with "competitively": non-competitively. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
competitively design design ea offer priced site web web | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "competitively"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 竞争地. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | virksomhed,der arbejder under konkurrencebestemte vilkår (enterprise operating competitively). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | onderneming,die concurrerend werkt (enterprise operating competitively). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | entreprise fonctionnant de manière concurrentielle (enterprise operating competitively). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | wetteifernd (rivaling, vieing, vying, vyingly), konkurrierend (competing, rival). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | επιχείρηση που λειτουργεί υπό συνθήκες ανταγωνισμού (enterprise operating competitively). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | impresa concorrenziale (enterprise operating competitively), impresa che opera secondo principi concorrenziali (enterprise operating competitively). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 경쟁 으로. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ompetitivelycay empresa que funciona de forma concorrencial (enterprise operating competitively). (various references) empresa que funciona de manera competitiva (enterprise operating competitively). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Competitively" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: competetively, competitivity. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "competitively" (pronounced kumpe"tutivlē) |
| 7 | -t u t i v l ē | tentatively. |
| 6 | -u t i v l ē | affirmatively, alternatively, comparatively, consecutively, conservatively, cooperatively, cumulatively, definitively, figuratively, imaginatively, intuitively, negatively, positively, prohibitively, provocatively, relatively, sensitively. |
| 5 | -t i v l ē | accumulatively, actively, administratively, affectively, appreciatively, assertively, attentively, attractively, authoritatively, collectively, constructively, creatively, deceptively, distinctively, effectively, exhaustively, furtively, instinctively, legislatively, objectively, preemptively, productively, prospectively, protectively, qualitatively, respectively, retroactively, retrospectively, seductively, selectively, substantively. |
| 4 | -i v l ē | aggressively, cohesively, comprehensively, compulsively, conclusively, decisively, defensively, derisively, effusively, excessively, exclusively, expensively, explosively, extensively, impassively, impressively, impulsively, inconclusively, inexpensively, intensively, massively, obsessively, offensively, passively, persuasively, progressively, reflexively, successively. |
| 3 | -v l ē | bravely, gravely, lively, lovely, naively, plaintively, quantitatively. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-i-l-m-o-p-t-t-v-y" | |
-2 letters: competitive. | |
-3 letters: completive. | |
-4 letters: emotively, emotivity, lectotype, leitmotiv. | |
-5 letters: complete, epicotyl, epitomic, impolicy, impolite, lipocyte, motility, motivity, pyelitic, velocity. | |
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