chief competitor

collocation in English

meaningsofchiefandcompetitor

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chief
adjective[before noun]
uk
/tʃiːf/us
/tʃiːf/
most important ...
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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 ofchiefandcompetitorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Moreover, both railwaymen and road hauliers are wrong in assuming that each is the other'schiefcompetitor.
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Is there any sense or logic in that when the cotton industry has no protection whatever against itschiefcompetitor?
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It is a curious idea that the private mines'chiefcompetitorshould be he who issues licences.
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I am arguing this from the point of view that the cotton industry itself is receiving no protection at all against itschiefcompetitor.
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One of the chief competitors is the paper-making industry itself, owing to the large expansion in the use of cartons.
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He said that in 1937, under the system of training and apprenticeship of one of our chief competitors.
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We have to face up to this problem, because it is not a comparable problem with our chief competitors in the world.
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We have got away with it in the past with a steady inflation, but probably only because our chief competitors were doing exactly the same.
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So even more than some of our chief competitors we have to adopt techniques for minimising production wastage and keeping our prices keen.
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How are we to maintain full employment subject to the constraints of not deviating from the inflation rates of our chief competitors?
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Their chief competitors are not vessels flying foreign flags.
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This country to-day is taxed double and treble compared with its chief competitors.
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It is the course who has been pursued already, in advance of us, by our chief competitors in this race.
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That is being done in those countries which are our chief competitors.
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Wage rates in the manufacturing industries in the country generally are substantially below those of our chief competitors.
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One thing that needs to be done is to create an even playing field between the railways and their chief competitors—private motor cars.
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Their chief competitors are road and rail.
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Our percentage of world trade was going down consistently during the last six years prior to last year, while our chief competitors were taking much of our share from us.
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However, the national lottery, the pools and premium bonds—the chief competitors of the bingo industry—have been permitted to break away from the policy of satisfying unstimulated demand.
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