competing

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com·pet·ing /kəmˈpiːtɪŋ/ adjectiveadj [only before noun]

1 DIFFERENTcompeting stories, ideas etc cannot all be right or accepted 互相矛盾的，相互抵触的

Several people gave competing accounts of the accident.

几个人对这一事件的说法互相矛盾。

a compromise between competing interests within the organization

该团体内利益冲突的各方之间的妥协

competing claims

互相矛盾的说法

2. competing products/brands/companies etc products etc that are trying to be more successful than each other 相互竞争的产品/品牌/公司等

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competing products/brands/companies etc• Invariably, the own-brand range is offered at lower prices than the competing brands.• Price is now the main factor differentiating competing brands.• They do not adjust their shopping list to take advantage of price fluctuations among competing products.• This analysis will use recently developed techniques for measuring the competitiveness of a product amongst a group of similar competing products.• A simple comparison of total estimated income from the competing products may provide as good a guide to decision making.• Being a suspicious soul I also ran a competing companies test disk on the system.

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competing• As there are too few places, comparison between competing claims is necessary.• Many perceived the affair as a struggle between the competing claims of parents and teachers over the education of the child.• Similarly radicals overstate the degree of unanimity among the medical profession, which is in fact riven with dissension and competing ideologies.• I thought it would be fascinating to watch two such competing impulses in the same woman and in women of different classes.• They were for ever breaking up each other's fish-weirs and quarrelling over competing interests in pasture and peat cutting.• An alternative approach is to recognise the possibility of a more broadly-based balancing of the competing interests involved.• Last week's meeting in Paris presented the results of a two-year study of the competing projects.• The senior staff have many competing responsibilities.

competing interests• Every managerial decision required trade-offs among competing interests.• Instead of the central board of directors foisting decisions on unwilling parties, policy formation reflects endless bargaining between diverse competing interests.• This may require the exchange to carry out a balancing act between competing interests.• In the ambiguous world of international politics, clear-cut choices between competing interests and values are rare.• The legitimate pursuit of competing interests can balance and preserve social and organisational arrangements.• They were for ever breaking up each other's fish-weirs and quarrelling over competing interests in pasture and peat cutting.• An alternative approach is to recognise the possibility of a more broadly-based balancing of the competing interests involved.• But how are competing interests to be assessed?

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