Competitor and Equivalent

Competitor

Competitor noun - One who strives for the same thing as another.

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Equivalent and competitor are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Equivalent" instead a noun "Competitor".

Equivalent noun - One that is equal to another in status, achievement, or value.

Usage example: that huge mansion is the equivalent of five ordinary houses

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Competitor and equivalent are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Competitor" instead a noun "Equivalent".

human	human competitor	human equivalent
good	good competitor	good equivalent
female	female competitor	female equivalent
direct	direct competitor	direct equivalent
Other adjectives: actual, real, male, dark, military, fictional, closest, nearest.

A Lee Majors Film, The Agency about an ad agency which was running ads for a politician that showed that his competitor for the election had some undesirable quality, like being spawn of the devil or some such equivalent, while their candidate was patriotic and 100% American.

Source: Subliminal Advertising
He's also the sexual equivalent of a Spirited Competitor, and he's overjoyed when he finds a woman who can keep up with him.

Source: Music / The Man Who Sold the World
Its Canadian equivalent, which retained the CourtTV name until 2010, became a Canadian version of its former competitor Investigation Discovery through a wider licensing agreement between Discovery Communications and the channel's parent company CTVglobemedia.

Source: Network Decay / Total Abandonment

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