intensified competition
collocation in Englishmeaningsofintensifyandcompetition
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intensify
verb[I or T]
uk/ɪnˈten.sɪ.faɪ/us/ɪnˈten.sə.faɪ/
to become greater, more serious, or more extreme, or to make something ...
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competition
noun
uk/ˌkɒm.pəˈtɪʃ.ən/us/ˌkɑːm.pəˈtɪʃ.ən/
a situation in which someone is trying to win something or be more successful than ...
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(Definition ofintensifyandcompetitionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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For business, on one hand,intensifiedcompetitionfrom unregulated labour overseas and the ease of relocation undermined the economic rationale for compromise with labour.
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At the level of provision, losses may be connected withintensifiedcompetitionfor resources from other disadvantaged groups, and the withdrawal of special services for disabled people.
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All that industry can look forward to is an absolute decline in gross domestic product and a shrinking home market, withintensifiedcompetitionfrom imports.
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They accept the fact that improvements in transport haveintensifiedcompetition.
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That is, what will happen to the industry in the 1990s, amidintensifiedcompetition?
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We must also remember that such enterprises are very sensitive tointensifiedcompetitionand to all financial and administrative problems.
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If so wage demands will be postponed andintensifiedcompetitionin a cautious home market may keep prices from rising.
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I do not believe that the answer to that question is simplyintensifiedcompetition.
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The problem still remains, however, that there is alsointensifiedcompetition.
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With many newcomers,intensifiedcompetitionand many people scrambling for business, the investor may be at the bottom of the pile.
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It is not a machinery for giving aegrotats or for lending support to failures, but a forum forintensifiedcompetition.
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We have to meet a very much increased and very greatlyintensifiedcompetition.
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In a sense, the car market is now embraced by the world as a whole and these factors lead tointensifiedcompetition.
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Our processors are facingintensifiedcompetitionas the single market nears completion.
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Once it had been decided to adopt a policy ofintensifiedcompetitionbetween road and rail, it was clearly necessary that the railways should have some measure of relief.
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One inevitable result of the new preferences, because they help to divert trade, will beintensifiedcompetitionwith foreign nations on the part of the industrialists.
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The climate ofintensifiedcompetition, of reduced contract times and heavy penalty clauses for delay have helped to squeeze health and safety out of money contracts.
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It has simply been used to enable them to intensify the insane competition among themselves for the export trade; it has alsointensifiedcompetitionamong themselves in the home trade.
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In the 1970s and 1980s, the aging hotel began to decline as changing travel patterns andintensifiedcompetitionfrom newer beach-front motels caused significant losses.
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The emergence of more advanced states andintensifiedcompetitionbetween them spurred on the development of advanced galleys with multiple banks of rowers.
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