Word Meanings - RIVALRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of rivaling, or the state of being a rival; a competition. "Keen contention and eager rivalries." Jeffrey. Syn. -- Emulation; competition. See Emulation.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RIVALRY)

• Competition
• Rivalry
• emulation
• race
• two of a trade
• Jealousy
• Suspicion
• envy
• rivalry
• solicitude

Related words: (words related to RIVALRY)

• TRADE-MARK
  A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law.
• TRADESFOLK
  People employed in trade; tradesmen. Swift.
• SOLICITUDE
  The state of being solicitous; uneasiness of mind occasioned by fear of evil or desire good; anxiety. The many cares and great labors of worldly men, their solicitude and outward shows. Sir W. Raleigh. The mother looked at her with fond solicitude.
• TRADESPEOPLE
  People engaged in trade; shopkeepers.
• TRADED
  Professional; practiced. Shak.
• SUSPICION
  suspectio a looking up to, an esteeming highly, suspicion, fr. suspicere to look up, to esteem, to mistrust. The modern form suspicion in English and French is in imitation of L. suspicio 1. The act of suspecting; the imagination or apprehension
• TRADELESS
  Having no trade or traffic. Young.
• TRADES-UNIONIST; TRADE-UNIONIST
  A member of a trades union, or a supporter of trades unions.
• TRADER
  1. One engaged in trade or commerce; one who makes a business of buying and selling or of barter; a merchant; a trafficker; as, a trader to the East Indies; a country trader. 2. A vessel engaged in the coasting or foreign trade.
• TRADESCANTIA
  A genus including spiderwort and Wandering Jew.
• COMPETITION
  The act of seeking, or endevearing to gain, what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time; common strife for the same objects; strife for superiority; emulous contest; rivalry, as for approbation, for a prize, or as where two or more persons
• JEALOUSY
  The quality of being jealous; earnest concern or solicitude; painful apprehension of rivalship in cases nearly affecting one's happiness; painful suspicion of the faithfulness of husband, wife, or lover. I was jealous for jealousy. Zech. viii. 2.
• TRADESWOMAN
  A woman who trades, or is skilled in trade.
• TRADESMAN
  1. One who trades; a shopkeeper. 2. A mechanic or artificer; esp., one whose livelihood depends upon the labor of his hands. Burrill.
• TRADE NAME
  The name by which an article is called among traders, etc.; as, tin spirits is a common trade name in the dyeing industry for various solutions of tin salts. An invented or arbitrary adopted name given by a manufacturer or merchant to an article
• EMULATION
  1. The endeavor to equal or to excel another in qualities or actions; an assiduous striving to equal or excel another; rivalry. A noble emulation heats your breast. Dryden. 2. Jea Such factious emulations shall arise. Shak. Syn. -- Competition;
• RIVALRY
  The act of rivaling, or the state of being a rival; a competition. "Keen contention and eager rivalries." Jeffrey. Syn. -- Emulation; competition. See Emulation.
• TRADES UNION; TRADE UNION
  An organized combination among workmen for the purpose of maintaining their rights, privileges, and interests with respect to wages, hours of labor, customs, etc.
• TRADE
  1. To barter, or to buy and sell; to be engaged in the exchange, purchase, or sale of goods, wares, merchandise, or anything else; to traffic; to bargain; to carry on commerce as a business. A free port, where nations . . . resorted with their
• TRADEFUL
  Full of trade; busy in traffic; commercial. Spenser.
• SOLE TRADER
  A feme sole trader.
• BALUSTRADE
  A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building.
• TETRADECANE
  A light oily hydrocarbon, C14H30, of the marsh-gas series; -- so called from the fourteen carbon atoms in the molecule.
• OVERTRADE
  To trade beyond one's capital; to buy goods beyond the means of paying for or seleng them; to overstock the market.
• UNSUSPICION
  The quality or state of being unsuspecting. Dickens.