Tournament vs. Competition

Tournament vs. Competition — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Tournament and Competition

Tournamentnoun

(historical) During the Middle Ages, a series of battles and other contests designed to prepare knights for war.

Competitionnoun

(uncountable) The action of competing.

The competition for this job is strong.

Tournamentnoun

A series of games; either the same game played many times, or a succession of games related by a single theme; played competitively to determine a single winning team or individual.

Competitionnoun

(countable) A contest for a prize or award.

The newspaper is featuring a competition to win a car.

Tournamentnoun

(graph theory) A digraph obtained by assigning a direction to each edge in an undirected complete graph.

Competitionnoun

The competitors in such a contest.

The new stain remover was ten times more effective than the competition.
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Tournamentnoun

a sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner

Competitionnoun

a business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers;

business competition can be fiendish at times

Tournamentnoun

a series of jousts between knights contesting for a prize

Competitionnoun

an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants

Competitionnoun

the act of competing as for profit or a prize;

the teams were in fierce contention for first place

Competitionnoun

the contestant you hope to defeat;

he had respect for his rivalshe wanted to know what the competition was doing
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