{
    "term": "rival",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a person, company or thing that competes with another in sport, business, etc.",
            "sensetop": "rival for somethingrival to somebody/something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The two teams have always been rivals."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Marlowe was Shakespeare's **main rival** at the beginning of his career."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the company's **nearest/closest rival** in the business"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The two men were **bitter rivals** throughout their careers."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This latest design **has no rivals** *(= it is easily the best design available)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She has no rivals for the job.",
                    "contextForm": "rival for something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Grand it may be, but this cathedral is no rival to the great cathedral of Amiens.",
                    "contextForm": "rival to somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The Japanese are our biggest economic rivals."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He eliminated his rivals with brutal efficiency."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She is now regarded as the greatest potential rival to Hu."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The business needed to revive profits and compete with new rivals."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The company faces big rivals in Europe and Asia."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The company is well equipped to compete with its international rivals."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They were rivals for her love."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They wind up as romantic rivals for the same woman."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They're old political rivals."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Those two have been friendly rivals since they first met."
                },
                {
                    "text": "In France and England, a new king often had to fight rivals for the succession to the throne."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Their friendship ended when the two men became rivals for the same woman."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["bitter", "close", "deadly"],
                "verb + rival": ["have", "face", "beat"],
                "rival + noun": ["candidate", "clan", "faction"],
                "preposition": ["rival for", "rival in", "rival to"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈraɪvl/",
                "audio": "ri/rival/rival__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈraɪvl/",
                "audio": "ri/rival/rival__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 16th cent.: from Latin rivalis, originally in the sense ‘person using the same stream as another’, from rivus ‘stream’."
}