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self-competition

self-competition noun: competition between retailers, products or services owned by the same brand.

Noun

self-competition (uncountable)

  1. 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...1958, Paul C. Williams, Discount-House Operations (Unites States Senate), Washington: United States Government Printing Office, page 389

Origin of self-competition

From self- + competition.

Questions about self-competition

What does self-competition mean?
Self-competition means competition between retailers, products or services owned by the same brand.
What part of speech is self-competition?
Self-competition is a noun.

Words near self-competition in the dictionary

  1. self-command
  2. self-commutator
  3. self-commutators
  4. self-compassion
  5. self-compatible
  6. self-competition
  7. self-complacency
  8. self-complacent
  9. self-composed
  10. self-conceipt
  11. self-conceit

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