industrial competitor

collocation in English

meaningsofindustrialandcompetitor

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industrial
adjective
uk
/ɪnˈdʌs.tri.əl/us
/ɪnˈdʌs.tri.əl/
in or related to industry, or having a lot of industry and ...
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competitor
noun[C]
uk
/kəmˈpet.ɪ.tər/us
/kəmˈpet̬.ə.t̬ɚ/
a person, team, or company that is competing ...
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(Definition ofindustrialandcompetitorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Income for income, the tax at maximum levels of taxation inindustrialcompetitorcountries is far lower than it is here.
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Such competition has come from fast moving companies in otherindustrialcompetitornations.
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There are five times as many university students in the universities of our greatestindustrialcompetitoras there are in our own.
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I have said that ourindustrialcompetitorcountries spend far less on defence as a proportion of their gross domestic product than we do.
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During the oil-rich years of the 1980s, the share of national resources devoted to investment has been lower than that of almost all our majorindustrialcompetitorcountries.
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Unit labour costs over the past 12 months in this country have risen more slowly than in all our mainindustrialcompetitorcountries, which is good news.
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We need wide-ranging action not only on resources, which have fallen far behind those of our industrial competitors, but on science education.
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All our great industrial competitors have ratified or are ratifying.
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Between the middle of 1979 and the middle of 1982 each of our major industrial competitors showed some growth in gross domestic product.
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All our industrial competitors have fall-back positions when there are threats of strikes in essential services or industries.
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At that time our industrial production was higher than that of many of our industrial competitors.
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Our housing standards compare well with those of our more successful industrial competitors.
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However, in relationship as a percentage to that of our industrial competitors, it is very small.
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This country does not compare well with our major industrial competitors in the proportion of our work force with full craft and technician qualifications.
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It goes where it will find the greatest profit, into the already developed countries which are our manufacturing and industrial competitors.
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Such planning and counter-cyclical activity is done as a matter of course by our industrial competitors.
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To win overseas contracts, we have to fight with all the means and vigour in our power against industrial competitors from all over the world.
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When does he expect inflation to come down to the level of that of our main industrial competitors?
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That would mean an increase in taxation when we should be bringing our defence expenditure into line with that of our industrial competitors.
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