competitiveness

English

Etymology

From competitive +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəmˈpɛtɪtɪvnəs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: com‧pet‧i‧tive‧ness

Noun

competitiveness (uncountable)

1. The state of being competitive.
   • 1973 June 2, Iver Peterson, “Campus Notes Grant Made for Study‐Incentive Plan”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Manhattanville College in Purchase, N. Y., has joined a small but growing [movement] back to the practice of awarding letter grades after a year's experiment with a nonletter system that was seen as a way of reducing the competitiveness and authoritarian quality of [letter] grading.

Synonyms

• competitivity

Derived terms

• noncompetitiveness

 

Translations

state of being competitive

• Catalan: competitivitat (ca) f
• Czech: soutěživost f
• Finnish: kilpailukyky (fi)
• French: compétitivité (fr) f
• Galician: competitividade f
• German: Wettbewerbsfähigkeit (de) f
• Hungarian: versenyképesség (hu)
• Italian: competitività (it) f
• Portuguese: competitividade (pt) f
• Romanian: competitivitate (ro) f
• Russian: конкурентоспосо́бность (ru) f (konkurentosposóbnostʹ), сопе́рничество (ru) n (sopérničestvo)
• Spanish: competitividad f
• Ukrainian: конкурентоспромо́жність f (konkurentospromóžnistʹ)