The phrase "a direct competition" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a situation where two or more entities are competing with each other in a straightforward manner.
Example: "The two companies are in a direct competition for market share in the tech industry."
Alternatives: "a fierce rivalry" or "a straightforward contest".
It's a direct competition.
Netflix fell 5.8 percent after Facebook announced that it would allow members to stream movies through its pages, a direct competition to Netflix's popular on-demand offering.
Jones's richly informative history recounts how the rivalry between two of the most celebrated artists in Florence became a direct competition in 1504, when Michelangelo was commissioned to paint an ancient battle scene on a wall of the Palazzo Vecchio — in the same room where Leonardo da Vinci had already been commissioned to paint a scene from another great Florentine conflict.
It seems only logical that the popularity of the relatively new comedy-video sites would steal some of the oxygen from veterans like Second City, but Ms. Hammond disputed the notion of a direct competition, at least in a financial sense.
At $400, the 80 GB configuration will be a direct competition with the new Xbox 60 GB model.
For instance, in the case of an MFS antiporter, a direct competition between the substrate and the driving substance, proton or Na+, is postulated (Zhang et al. 2015).
A: No direct competition, though of course there are other video discovery companies.
They might do both but it seems like there's a clear direct competition between Ning networks and Facebook pages.
The two most common ways in which offspring are suggested to receive greater resources is: (a) through direct competition with each other; and (b) through differential allocation of parental investment [10], [11].
It has been argued that such diversity is a result of a lack of direct competition between strains, even when resident within different individuals within the same community [ 32].
It is unacceptable that a local authority can set up a newspaper in direct competition to the local commercial newspaper in this way.
