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Outcompete
verb
To be more successful than a competitor; especially to thrive in the presence of an organism that is competing for resources
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Brute mathematics predict the new species, known as the marbled crayfish, will outcompete the locals.
Grasses are well adapted to fire, being able to resprout quickly from their roots and thus outcompete tree seedlings.The goal, then, is to encourage landowners to do more to prevent wildfires from starting and spreading.
Well over half of all financing agreements in Dubai are already written using English law.A more serious threat to British legal firms would be if "American law firms start to outcompete them", according to James Martin, a lawyer at Linklaters based in Dubai until recently.
It is a national delusion, not something Labour can outcompete on the left.
Now the "fastest smartphone in independent testing" will struggle to outcompete one with the display, software and price that a buyer is actually after.
Prodew Inc ,of Marietta, Georgia, has invented an innovative "misting machine" that can keep vegetables from drying up horribly in supermarkets ("We call it 'plug and spray'". These small companies are constantly under threat of being crushed by "big boys" who can outcompete them on everything from price to choice.
Natural selection will, the late Maynard Smith noted, move a population to a strategy that, if adopted by most members (eg, the majority of male mule deer being either "hawks" or "doves"), will make it impossible for some other strategy, introduced through genetic mutation, to outcompete the incumbents.Such "evolutionarily stable strategies" pervade biological systems.
They warn that conceptual confusion over the nature of entrepreneurship can also create policy confusion: attempts to boost the number of small businesses can reduce the likelihood that one of those small businesses will outcompete all the others.Schumpeterian entrepreneurship is all about innovation and ambition to turn small businesses into big ones.
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When expressed at high levels in a plant infected with maize-streak virus, the modified protein outcompetes the normal version, throwing a spanner into the works of viral assembly.
He outcompetes vendors from more traditional global IT markets, and last year bought a Portuguese technology company to gain access to their software and services.And then there's Funke Okpeke, who left a lucrative telecoms career in New York to assist the construction of 7,000km 4,3500 miles) of fibre-optic submarine cables from Portugal to the coast of west Africa through her company, MainOne.
Much of the plausibility of his account turns, however, on a catch-all clause that deals with societies that do not increase in complexity: societies that do not organise themselves effectively are conquered or outcompeted by societies that do.
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