English-Finnish translations for rival

• kilpailija
  Yhdysvallat ei saisi olla EU:n kilpailija. America should not be a rival of the EU.
  Chiracin olisi ymmärrettävä, että on liiankin helppoa tehdä EU:sta USA:n kilpailija. Chirac should realise that making the EU a rival of the US is a no-brainer.
  Tämä on kuitenkin jo historiaa, ja nyt Aer Lingusista on esittänyt julkisen ostotarjouksen sen pahin kilpailija Ryanair. However, that is history, and we now have Aer Lingus being targeted in a takeover bid by its main rival, Ryanair.
• kilpailla
  Meidän on tehostettava toimiamme, jotta Euroopan mediateollisuuden kilpailukykyä voidaan lisätä ja jotta se voi kilpailla paremmin Yhdysvaltojen teollisuuden kanssa. We have to intensify our efforts to make the European industry more competitive and better able to rival that of the U.S. industry.
  Galileo on EU:n erittäin kunnianhimoinen ja kallis pyrkimys kilpailla Yhdysvaltojen kanssa todellisesta vallasta maapallolla ja avaruudessa, miksi muuten jäljenneltäisiin GPS:ää? Galileo is a hugely ambitious and expensive attempt by the EU to rival the US as a fully-fledged global and space power, why else duplicate GPS?
  En tiedä, voiko panoksemme kilpailla Vasco da Gaman löytöretkien kanssa kunnianhimon kannalta, kuten jäsen Martin esitti, mutta se on joka tapauksessa meidän panoksemme. I do not know if it will be a contribution to rival the explorations made by Vasco da Gama in terms of ambition, as suggested by Mr Martin, but in any case it will be our contribution.

Definition of rival

• A competitor with the same goal as another, or striving to attain the same thing. Defeating a rival may be a primary or necessary goal of a competitor
• Someone or something with similar claims of quality or distinction as another
• One having a common right or privilege with another; a partner
• Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority
• To oppose or compete with
• To be equal to, or match, or to surpass another
• To strive to equal or excel; to emulate

Examples

• Chris is my biggest rival in the 400-metre race
• As a social historian, he has no rival
• rival lovers; rival claims or pretensions
• to rival somebody in love

Related words

• arrival
• arrivals
• rivalry
• archrival
• rivalrous
• trivalent
• corrival
• unrivalled
• unrivaled