You cant compete with me meaning

Startup companies must compete against established companies which have had many years to build up their markets.

Examples of compete

compete

Besides nutrients and light, rice and weeds also competed for water.

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Obviously, by competing in parliamentary elections, parties compete for office, but this does not mean that their goal is actually to attain office.

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Experiments with doubly driven film flow, in which gravitational and surface tension gradient stresses are competing, have uncovered some new phenomena.

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Secondly, the wildlife has to compete with the surrounding agriculture for the habitat.

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The editors have striven to give the floor to competing points of view without losing technical focus.

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Factor structure and clinical validity of competing models of positive symptoms in schizophrenia.

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In that example, the runner strictly prefers realizing some culmination outcome (winning) in certain ways (by competing fairly) rather than others (by cheating).

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To hold that one theory is true is not to deny that there are not reasonable grounds for holding competing theories.

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These overstated positions reassure patients about physicians' primary beneficent outlook while allowing inevitable compromises to accommodate difficult situations or competing principles.

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Even a statement recognizing the value of competing linguistic standards is too much for some.

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Legal duties were thus relational statements about competing claims of individual rights.

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Foraging efficiencies of competing rodents: why do gerbils exhibit shared-preference habitat selection?

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Elections ended and rhetoric became dominated by panegyric and display oratory, rather than a means of competing with aristocratic rivals.

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We note that the pressure force can compete with the electrostatic force in the earlier stages of the self-similar expansion.

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If this problem is not solved, too many parties will be competing with the result that several parties are shut out of the legislature.

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To work or put forth effort against someone or something. How many people am I competing with for this job? Instead of competing with the loud music out here, let's go inside and talk.

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compete with someone or something

to contend against someone, something, or a group; to play in a competition against someone, something, or a group. I can't compete with all this noise. We always compete closely with our crosstown rivals, Adams High School.

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From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishsomebody/something can’t compete with somebody/somethingsomebody/something can’t compete with somebody/somethingWORSEto not be as interesting, attractive etc as someone or something else  Melinda was plain and knew she couldn’t compete with her sister where boys were concerned. → competeExamples from the Corpussomebody/something can’t compete with somebody/something• Melinda knew she couldn't compete with her sister when it came to boys.

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What does it mean when someone says they can't compete?

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishsomebody/something can't compete with somebody/somethingsomebody/something can't compete with somebody/somethingto not be as interesting, attractive etc as someone or something else Melinda was plain and knew she couldn't compete with her sister where boys were concerned.

What does compete with someone mean?

1[intransitive, transitive] to try to be more successful or better than someone else who is trying to do the same as you compete (with/against somebody) (for something) Several companies are competing for the contract. We can't compete with them on price.

Are you competing with me meaning?

To work or put forth effort against someone or something.

What can I say instead of compete?

synonyms for compete.

battle..

challenge..

clash..

contend..

contest..

fight..