"Direct competition" refers to businesses that offer similar products or services and target the same customers. They directly compete with each other for customers and market share.
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So, we like to think that we offer a continuation of services, rather than work in
direct competition with other dating apps.
This is despite the fact these fighter males enjoy significant mating advantages when in
direct competition for females.
Historically, that kind
of direct competition between a software maker and hardware companies seemed like a recipe for conflict.
While the internet has made it really easy for authors to get exposure for their work, it has also thrown millions of people
into direct competition with one another.
As automakers grow their mobility services, those services will come into
more direct competition with those ride - hailing companies, which have millions of monthly active users.
Because there is
little direct competition or internal politics, they don't feel they have to put on a work persona to fit in.
Brokers and their agents must work with their peers at other companies day in and day out, despite being in
direct competition for business.
The result: what are essentially two separate school systems — one traditional, one charter —
in direct competition for students and state funding.
A female therefore may contain sperm from multiple partners at any one time, which puts the sperm itself — and not just the animals that produce it —
into direct competition.
Given that growth may already be slowing, you can expect Snap to have a rough first year, especially
as direct competition from Facebook's multiple platforms increases.
You'd forgive Capcom for expecting MVC 3 to debut at the top of the charts, what with it being an established brand releasing early in the year with very little
direct competition on the horizon.
The Expedition EL's
most direct competition comes from the similarly massive Chevrolet Suburban / GMC Yukon XL twins, although it can also be cross-shopped against smaller «utes like the Nissan Armada and Toyota Sequoia.
That's true — but it also drags the Canadian upstart into
direct competition against several bigger and better - resourced tech mammoths, rather than just one.
Cech on the other hand belongs to a club with which we are in
direct competition at the top and maybe even UCL.
This delayed launch, along with providing LG valuable time to include more powerful hardware like S800 processor in G2, also helped LG
avoid direct competition with the Samsung Galaxy S4 launched during the beginning of the second quarter.
I signed an NDA when I started my previous job, which stated I could not create anything that is classed as
direct competition within 6 months of leaving the company.
So far, however, the
only direct competition scheduled for the date itself is 20th Century Fox's Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children.
At most, it has clarified that these implicit duties are general in nature and can be invoked in franchise contexts other than the particular fact pattern in Provigo, which was one of
direct competition by a franchisor with its own franchisees.
All of the match types you'll find in Bash, however, are action games all
about direct competition with the other players.
Key Australian sectors that gain from the deal — manufacturing, agriculture, resources and services sectors - are
also direct competition for Canada's exporters to the region.
Pedro, Higuain, Benzema and Lacazette have all been mooted as possibilities, but my money would be on the latter as he would
offer direct competition to Giroud and could also fill one of the wide positions if necessary.
And while it will face more
direct competition when Nvidia Shield comes to store shelves later this year, the $ 50 price difference should help sway gamers to Razer's cheaper plastic.
WIthin a year we don't expect
much direct competition going on other than in the time trials, which is a shame, but only for those who wrought it.
The trial judge characterized the agreement as an employment agreement and found the non-competition clause to be unenforceable as it unreasonably covered a wide range of activities
beyond direct competition with IRIS.
Other factors will also impact the evolution of adhesion phenotypes, including the relative advantage of highly - adhesive cells against less - adhesive cells in direct competition [54], and the trade - off between competitive surface adhesion and the ability to disperse to new habitats for later growth [38, 40, 83].
While 40 - plus mpg is very good for a midsize sedan, the Camry Hybrid falls
behind direct competition from Chevrolet and Ford.
Acer had many variants of its Iconia family at Computex this year in Taipei and the A100 Android 2.2 Tablet felt
like direct competition to the older Samsung Galaxy Tab.
With a record number of both female -
directed Competition entries and female jurors last year (in fact, the jury was mostly female), I guess they feel they've bought themselves a couple of years of male domination.
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