potential competitor
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpotentialandcompetitor
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potential
adjective[before noun]
uk/pəˈten.ʃəl/us/poʊˈten.ʃəl/
possible when the necessary ...
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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 ofpotentialandcompetitorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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I believe that the company is planning to asset-strip the yard, and at the same time to destroy apotentialcompetitor.
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The goodwill of the customer could quickly cool if the supplier became apotentialcompetitor.
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There is no competitor, there is nopotentialcompetitor.
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The standard is purely relative, and may be forced upon any nation by the action of their neighbours, and every neighbour is apotentialcompetitor.
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They have either knocked out or bought out everypotentialcompetitor, and are now in a position to charge what prices they like.
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Whenever we damage apotentialcompetitor, we damage a much wider class of person.
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The private sector has subsidised it to keep it going hut, judging by the reports, it seems shaky, and apotentialcompetitorseems to have received ministerial endorsement.
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Boeing is apotentialcompetitor, but it has not announced anything.
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The river chub could be considered apotentialcompetitoralthough it is not currently known to share habitat with the redtail chub.
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The two species are potential competitors, but their diet competition may be reduced by their large difference in body size and somewhat different ecological niches.
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This piece of evidence, at the least, demonstrates that there are potential competitors for the concept of internalization.
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The possibility that parasites alter their use of resources when co-occurring with potential competitors also renders numerical responses less likely.
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This was an unlikely outcome: the pro-liberalisation coalition of industry consumers and potential competitors remained weaker than the incumbent utilities, and most governments remained sceptical.
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The essential notion behind a capture account is that existing or large producers are able to design regulation to function as an entry barrier against smaller or potential competitors.
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From a processing point of view, the choice of a subject antecedent implies a minimal cost, and is therefore preferred unless there are cues that point towards other potential competitors.
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Public policy was not compromised so long as potential competitors were free to enter the market and consumers were not compelled to buy, as in the case of life's necessities.
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Struggles over succession inevitably drew in these people as potential competitors for traditional office and gave the politics of the colonial period a particularly parochial quality.
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Yet, physicians were potential competitors.
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Potential competitors have turned their attention somewhere else.
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From the point of view of the national economy and of building up industry to compete with potential competitors for survival, this is economic waste.
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