plural of competition wallah

(India, historical, colloquial) A member of the civil service who obtained an appointment by the competitive system instituted in 1856.

(euphemistic) DC Comics (in the context of its rivalry with Marvel Comics)

(sciences) A type of competition where the resource is inadequate to fit the needs of all, resulting in each competitor obtaining an equally partitioned amount and thus never the amount it needs.

(sciences) A type of competition where the resource is inadequate to fit the needs of all and the resource is partitioned unequally among contestants, thus some obtain all they need and others less than they need.

plural of interspecific competition

(motor racing) A caution (“yellow flag”) flown during a race to separate a race into different stages. During the yellow period, standard caution flag rules apply.

(law) In commercial law and specifically competition law, any of various distinct violations or criminal offenses that may give rise to civil causes of action (being taken to court), usually including antitrust violations such as restraint of trade and predatory pricing, trademark infringement, passing off or palming off, and misappropriation of trade secrets.

(economics) A type of market structure that shares both characteristics of perfect competition and that of monopoly depending on the time frame (long-run or short-run).

(economics) A theoretical type of market structure, where there are many firms providing homogeneous goods or services, resulting in allocative and productive efficiency in the long run.