principal competitor

collocation in English

meaningsofprincipalandcompetitor

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principal
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/us
/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/
first in order ...
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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 ofprincipalandcompetitorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The necessity for the rationing of imported fuel has affected theprincipalcompetitorof the railways, the virile and active road transport industry.
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Theprincipalcompetitorof coal is oil.
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She is ourprincipalcompetitor.
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How does that £1.7 million investment compare with our principal competitors; and will the project be extended when it reaches the end of its life?
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Happily, they all moved ahead strongly after devaluation substantially altered the terms of trade between them and their principal competitors overseas.
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I am not aware that any comparable information is readily available for our principal competitors.
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This guarantee is unequalled by any of our principal competitors.
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For some months now our interest rates have been lower, in some cases significantly lower, than that which our principal competitors have to face.
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In the electro-mechanical industry and in the electro-metallurgical industry we are, as everyone knows, far behind our principal competitors.
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We know that our principal competitors had the foresight to invest extensively in industry.
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That is not at all what our principal competitors do.
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The training and skills of our managers and other employees are low compared with our principal competitors.
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I think that that compares very favourably with the amount of duty which is to be paid by the principal competitors of cinema—namely, television.
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As a percentage of gross national product, we now spend more on education than any of our principal competitors.
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Our productivity is hopelessly lower than that of our principal competitors.
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The purchasers are the principal competitors, or may well be, of the man whose property is being expropriated.
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What are the investment percentages among our principal competitors?
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The pound is still enormously overvalued compared with our principal competitors.
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We shall see as the years go by that we catch up with our principal competitors.
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If we look as where that deficit in manufactures lies, it lies essentially with the industrialised nations who are our principal competitors.
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