Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Characterized by or given to rivalry or competition.
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- adjective Having a relationship of
rivalry
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- adjective eager to surpass others
Etymologies
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Examples
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Second, goods made of atoms are "rivalrous" - which means that if I check out a book (or order the last piece of apple pie), then you cannot "consume" the book (or pie) … unless I
WiredPen 2009
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The economists you encountered in Chapter 1 have, with their usual linguistic felicity, coined the terms "rivalrous" and
The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind James Boyle
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Rival: (Wikipedia seems to call this "rivalrous", but when I were a young economist lass we used to call it rival so I'll stick with that.)
"BANPC" via James Bow in Google Reader Nicholas 2010
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Lawrence Lessig is careful to distinguish between "rivalrous" resources, like drinking water, in which one person's use by definition competes with another's, and "nonrivalrous" resources, like the English language, which cannot be depleted no matter how many people make use of them. the commons can embody cherished values - indeed, cherished American values - that private property cannot.
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Thus Lessig is careful to distinguish between "rivalrous" resources, like drinking water, in which one person's use by definition competes with another's, and "nonrivalrous" resources, like the English language, which cannot be depleted no matter how many people make use of them.
RVABlogs 2008
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Thus Lessig is careful to distinguish between "rivalrous" resources, like drinking water, in which one person's use by definition competes with another's, and "nonrivalrous" resources, like the English language, which cannot be depleted no matter how many people make use of them.
RVABlogs 2008
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If we attempt to jump into the existing rivalrous market of demographic stop-'n'-shop, we are surely going to lose.
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He criticized Congress most of all, for a Ma Bell-inspired legislative framework wholly inappropriate to today's dynamic, rivalrous, evolving communications industry.
Wild, Wild Wireless Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011
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Ondi Timoner's gripping study of rivalrous bands the Brian Jonestown Massacre and the Dandy Warhols, is about ambition.
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Ask a journalist if he or she minds being perceived as an ego-driven, rivalrous, opportunistic, plonk-swilling word machine and you're more likely to get an invitation to the wine bar than a letter from their solicitor.
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