competitiveness

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competitiveness

  • /kəmˈpɛtɪtɪvnəs/

noun

  1. uncountable The state of being competitive. Manhattanville College in Purchase, N. Y., has joined a small but growing [movement] back to the practice of awarding letter grades after a year's experiment with a nonletter system that was seen as a way of reducing the competitiveness and authoritarian quality of [letter] grading.

    Similar: competitivity

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Closest in meaning: fight, competition, compete, rival, rivalry, productivity, ability, competence, longterm, jurisdiction, uncompetitive, vying, competitivity, contest, contention, ambition

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noun state of being competitive

Españolcompetitividad
Portuguêscompetitividade
Françaiscompétitivité
DeutschWettbewerbsfähigkeit
Italianocompetitività
Românăcompetitivitate
Русскийконкурентоспосо́бность konkurentosposóbnostʹ, сопе́рничество sopérničestvo

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@misc{competitiveness_2026,
  title = {competitiveness},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/competitiveness},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}