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self-competition en · NOUN

Etymology

From self- + competition.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Competition between retailers, products or services owned by the same brand.
    • However, when our product is required to compete with itself by the reckless and irresponsible commercial conduct of price cutters, our ability to compete diminishes. This self-competition among different outlets for the same branded product is morbid competition, a perverse corruption of the concept of competition itself which leads to its destruction. 1958, Paul C. Williams, Discount-House Operations (Unites States Senate), Washington: United States Government Printing Office, page 389: