The phrase "as a direct competitive" is not correct in English.
It seems to be an incomplete or incorrect expression, possibly intended to convey a comparison or relationship in a competitive context.
Example: "The company positioned itself as a direct competitor in the market."
Alternatives: "as a direct rival" or "as a direct competitor."
"The rest of the British media have come to see the BBC as a direct competitive threat in a way they never used to.
Just this week, Target reportedly announced it was leaving AWS because it also sees Amazon's move into retail as a direct competitive threat.
It bothered them so much, in fact, they began pressuring their tech partners to get off of AWS, citing Amazon as a direct competitive threat to their business.
The new EE2 derivative is used as tracer in a direct competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for the determination of EE2.
It points out that with global warming, "cyanobacteria [have] a direct competitive advantage as they generally grow better at higher temperature than do other phytoplankton species such as diatoms and green algae". .
One thing it will give Google is a direct competitive offering to personal Web-publishing services such as Yahoo!
A direct, competitive chemiluminescence immunoassay using the DiaSorin LIAISON platform, as described in detail elsewhere [ 17], was used to quantitate 25(OH D levels.
As reported elsewhere (18), all serum or plasma samples were assayed for 25(OH D at Heartland Assays, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) by a direct, competitive chemiluminescence immunoassay by using the DiaSorin LIAISON 25 OH Vitamin D TOTAL Assay (19, 20).
Here, we report the development of a direct competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (Dc-ELISA) to detect M. bovis antibody.
The assay is a direct competitive chemiluminescence immunoassay for determination of metabolised 25-hydroxyvitamin D quantities in serum.
