foreign competitor

collocation in English

meaningsofforeignandcompetitor

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foreign
adjective
uk
/ˈfɒr.ən/us
/ˈfɔːr.ən/
belonging or connected to a country that is not ...
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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 offoreignandcompetitorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofforeign competitor

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Of course, it will come from aforeigncompetitor, and you are putting your ships into touch with foreign suppliers and permanently losing a market.
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At the present time our home coal goes to the advantage of ourforeigncompetitor.
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Theforeigncompetitordid not supply on time.
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When businesses fall and try to recover they are likely to find that their business has been taken by aforeigncompetitor.
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Are not these 16 manufacturers of glass in this country directly interested in keeping out aforeigncompetitor?
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If he is to keep pace with hisforeigncompetitor, who is clearly going to build specialised ships, he must match him up.
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There is an indirect form of subsidy there, to aforeigncompetitorof ours.
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Everything done along those lines would be undone by the benefit which you would bring to someforeigncompetitor.
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We have lost that trade to ourforeigncompetitor.
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It is better that they should get an order between them than that it should go to someforeigncompetitor.
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Its success could have been built on and expanded, but, instead, it was flogged cheaply to aforeigncompetitor.
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It may seem astonishing that that sort of sales propaganda from aforeigncompetitorshould be so easily absorbed.
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Will we be unable to place the order with the other company if it is taken over by aforeigncompetitor?
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The alleged breach is that aforeigncompetitorhas gained a licence through the back door.
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Protection is most successful when it does not raise the price, because ultimately it compels theforeigncompetitorto give up selling at a loss.
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This might mean a trade competitor within our own boundaries, or aforeigncompetitoroverseas.
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Because tobacco has been used as a revenue producing commodity a powerful turn has been given to the home industry as against theforeigncompetitor.
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Theforeigncompetitorfitted theirs out to take 380-odd animals, although it was going on a longer journey.
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It was obvious that the price that theforeigncompetitorwas asking was negligible and perhaps below the cost of the steel of which the equipment was composed.
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An owner who is undercut by aforeigncompetitorby a shilling, if he knows he can get the shilling through the subsidy, may secure the contract.
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