cutthroat competition

collocation in English

meaningsofcutthroatandcompetition

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cutthroat
adjective
uk
/ˈkʌt.θrəʊt/us
/ˈkʌt.θroʊt/
not involving considering or worrying about any harm caused ...
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competition
noun
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/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 ofcutthroatandcompetitionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This emphasis on unfair trade practices suspended national planning and revitalized the market by discouragingcutthroatcompetition.
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The requirement of "free and unrestricted competition" was an invitation tocutthroatcompetitionand, ultimately, to the financial ruin of the railroads.
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Owing tocutthroatcompetition, they were unable to carry on for very long.
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We were in the midst of a hectic era ofcutthroatcompetition.
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But in transport it has to be proved that the competition—and it iscutthroatcompetition—is advantageous to the transport system as a whole.
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Restriction of output at certain pits has had the effect of stopping, to some extent, thecutthroatcompetition.
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New orders have to be fought for againstcutthroatcompetition.
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I submit that this must entailcutthroatcompetitionof a very severe character.
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After all, the worst feature of the coal situation is thatcutthroatcompetitionis going on abroad.
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That is to say, they want what we callcutthroatcompetitionwithin the transport industry.
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Surely, in the interests of the people who have done the fighting, we are not going back to this insane,cutthroatcompetition.
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The system of individualcutthroatcompetitionhas failed.
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After all, competition is the one thing by which industry retains its vitality, andcutthroatcompetitionreally means the survival of the fittest.
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They would prefer some rational planning with us of the export trade, so that we do not havecutthroatcompetitionfor the same market.
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You could allow the cable companies to go out of existence by means ofcutthroatcompetitionbetween the beam and the other systems.
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Nobody can compel railway companies to indulge incutthroatcompetitionagainst themselves when they have realised that it is foolish competition.
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We went through the same period ofcutthroatcompetition.
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One school of thought would like to go back to the old war ofcutthroatcompetitionand the survival of the fittest.
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In the building industry, which was quite a cut-throat industry before the war, he still survived, and if he did so in thatcutthroatcompetition, he must be super-efficient.
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Whatever may be done at the ports of entry, whatever duties may be imposed, there is still the problem ofcutthroatcompetitionand over-supplies and gluts in the markets.
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