rival company

collocation in English

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rival
noun[C]
uk
/ˈraɪ.vəl/us
/ˈraɪ.vəl/
a person, group, etc. competing with others for the same thing or in the ...
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company
noun
uk
/ˈkʌm.pə.ni/us
/ˈkʌm.pə.ni/
an organization that sells goods or services in order to ...
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(Definition ofrivalandcompanyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Therivalcompanywere perfectly willing to construct the dock without asking for any extra dues.
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What happens if a retiring chief executive becomes chairman of arivalcompany?
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The most trifling complaint against therivalcompanybecame the subject of solemn investigation by the zealous governor.
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Arivalcompanymoves next door and attracts all his customers.
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On one occasion, a senior executive with arivalcompanywon an award at a trade ceremony.
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In a famous letter he sent therivalcompany, he swore to crush the enterprise, rather than waste time in legal action.
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Arivalcompanyoffered royalties of 625 million baht.
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However, when therivalcompanyadopted standard gauge, a link was constructed between the two lines.
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Now they had learned that one of their two key consultants, the one with money raising skills, had been working to set up arivalcompany.
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For example, such acts are the cases when a business owner asks for the yakuza to intimidate arivalcompany; or to obstruct a local residents' campaign.
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In the meantime, her father's client solicits her aid in his investigation of arivalcompany, which seems to be making silk using his patented methods.
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Rival companies have been gaining access to the mobile telephone market, yet vast tracts of my constituency have no access to that network.
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Some of it will be commercially confidential, perhaps from rival companies whose disclosures could seriously damage the interests of other firms.
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However, we need more investment in the rural networks and more integration between the services provided by rival companies and between bus and rail services.
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There was no bargaining with rival companies about transport.
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In some areas, it is unrealistic to expect competition between rival companies to be the best guarantor of value for money.
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So good were their small cars that they have been absorbed now by what used to be their rival companies.
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We strolled out on to the tarmac and saw a rival company's machine—a pistonengined type—take off.
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Passengers, possibly including the elderly and children, were left freezing while rival companies argued over profit.
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There was a working agreement made between the rival companies whereby the takings were pooled, and thus that competition did not exist before the war.
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