formidable competitor

collocation in English

meaningsofformidableandcompetitor

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formidable
adjective
uk
/fɔːˈmɪd.ə.bəl/us
/fɔːrˈmɪd.ə.bəl/
causing you to have fear or respect for something or someone because that thing or person is large, powerful, ...
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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 offormidableandcompetitorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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At the very least, the euro will be aformidablecompetitorfor sterling, because it is bound to circulate freely within the countries.
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In course of time the companies were attacked by electric lighting, which they found a veryformidablecompetitor.
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I believe there are 5 million subscribers to television, which is the more recent and moreformidablecompetitorthan the cinema.
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I only recognise it as aformidablecompetitor.
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We have in electricity aformidablecompetitoras a source of power, to what was, at one time, largely a monopoly of this country.
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This gave the large producer an advantage in distribution, and the small producer in his turn adopted night work in order to meet his moreformidablecompetitor.
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They are our most formidable competitors in business, they are our most terrible opponents in war.
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That is the very distinction that makes them the more formidable competitors.
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Our most formidable competitors come from inside our own country.
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We are the formidable competitors who take markets from other people, so we have our own successes.
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Our most formidable competitors ill the world have the advantage of cheap and abundant electrical power.
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We shall have to face formidable competitors throughout the world after the war, and we cannot afford to neglect any of our resources.
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There only remain two nations which could be formidable competitors of ours.
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They start therefore with certain comparative advantages, and we find to-day that they are formidable competitors.
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I suspect that they are only the advance guard of our new formidable competitors.
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We are up against the most formidable competitors in the world.
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They are formidable competitors in their own right.
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We find ourselves in presence of new and formidable competitors who are scrambling for what little trade is left.
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Those people were our most formidable competitors.
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