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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Acting or done in competition; rival: as, a competitory treatise.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Acting in competition; competing; rival.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective dated Acting in competition or rivalry.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective involving competition or competitiveness

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