English-Portuguese translations for rivalry

• concorrência
  Não devemos permitir que se instale uma concorrência entre os países do Leste da Europa e os nossos vizinhos do Sul. We do not want to see rivalry developing between eastern European countries and our southern neighbours.
  Necessitamos desta concorrência de ideias, desta rivalidade intelectual, a fim de intensificarmos o debate em matéria económica e monetária.We need this competition of ideas, this intellectual rivalry, in order to intensify the economic and monetary policy debate.
  Considero real o perigo de surgir uma situação de concorrência entre o Provedor de Justiça e esta Autoridade Europeia, uma vez que as funções se sobrepõem. In my view, there is a real risk that a kind of rivalry will exist between the Ombudsman and this Supervisor, because their tasks overlap.
• rivalidade
  Parceria não é o mesmo que rivalidade. A partnership is different from rivalry.
  Impõe-se mais parceria e menos rivalidade. We need more partnership and less rivalry.
  Pressinto certo tipo de rivalidade - ou, digamos, ansiedade - entre os deputados. I discern some kind of rivalry - or, let us say, anxiety - among Members.

Definition of rivalry

• An ongoing relationship between rivals who compete for superiority
• The characteristic of being a rivalrous good, such that it can be consumed or used by only one person at a time
• Any competition between two or more things or factors

Examples

• The Boston Bruins have a longstanding rivalry with the Montreal Canadiens.
• James and Polly have a bitter rivalry due to the latters inclusion in the Tea Time Teaser.
• Common goods are those which are rivalrous in consumption but non-excludable
• Binocular rivalry is a visual phenomenon in which perception alternates between different images presented to each eye.

Related words

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