Rivalrous

Word RIVALROUS
Character 9
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /ˈɹaɪv(ə)lɹəs/

Definitions and meanings of "Rivalrous"

What do we mean by rivalrous?

Characterized by or given to rivalry or competition. adjective

Having a relationship of rivalry adjective

Eager to surpass others adjective

Having a relationship of rivalry.

(of a good) Which can be consumed by no more than one person at the same time.

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The word "rivalrous" in example sentences

Second, goods made of atoms are "rivalrous" - which means that if I check out a book (or order the last piece of apple pie), then you cannot "consume" the book (or pie) … unless I ❋ Unknown (2009)

The economists you encountered in Chapter 1 have, with their usual linguistic felicity, coined the terms "rivalrous" and ❋ James Boyle (N/A)

Rival: (Wikipedia seems to call this "rivalrous", but when I were a young economist lass we used to call it rival so I'll stick with that.) ❋ Nicholas (2010)

Thus Lessig is careful to distinguish between "rivalrous" resources, like drinking water, in which one person's use by definition competes with another's, and "nonrivalrous" resources, like the English language, which cannot be depleted no matter how many people make use of them. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Lawrence Lessig is careful to distinguish between "rivalrous" resources, like drinking water, in which one person's use by definition competes with another's, and "nonrivalrous" resources, like the English language, which cannot be depleted no matter how many people make use of them. the commons can embody cherished values - indeed, cherished American values - that private property cannot. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Few people write winsome young men better than Mr. Phillips, and Arthur's rivalrous love for his father is brought to life here, as is his catastrophic attraction to Dana's girlfriend, Petra a darker retelling of the love triangle in "Twelfth Night". ❋ Sam Sacks (2011)

How rivalrous of Knightley did she feel off-screen? ❋ Kate Kellaway (2010)

He criticized Congress most of all, for a Ma Bell-inspired legislative framework wholly inappropriate to today's dynamic, rivalrous, evolving communications industry. ❋ Jr. Holman W. Jenkins (2011)

Ondi Timoner's gripping study of rivalrous bands the Brian Jonestown Massacre and the Dandy Warhols, is about ambition. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Arnold Kling asks, a little skeptically, whether information goods -- which are frequently non-rivalrous and non-excludable -- are ever likely to be luxury goods [Tracked on August 8, 2003 1: 36 AM] ❋ Unknown (2009)

The difference between real estate and intellectual property is that real estate is naturally and inevitably rivalrous. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If we attempt to jump into the existing rivalrous market of demographic stop-'n'-shop, we are surely going to lose. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Unlike IP, works of craft are both _exhaustible_ and _rivalrous_. ❋ Unknown (2009)

BTW, education is clearly NOT a public good, as it flunks both the tests of non-excludability and non-rivalrous consumption. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If King owns the paper, then the kid cannot also own it at the same time ... it is rivalrous. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Ask a journalist if he or she minds being perceived as an ego-driven, rivalrous, opportunistic, plonk-swilling word machine and you're more likely to get an invitation to the wine bar than a letter from their solicitor. ❋ Unknown (2011)

An account of the Renaissance geniuses Michelangelo and Leonardo reveals the rivalrous passion in their work, writes Peter Conrad ❋ Unknown (2010)

NBC merger in order to foster the kind of massive-scale infrastructure competition and rivalrous response that would otherwise achieve the alleged ends of neutrality ❋ Wayne Crews (2010)

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