{
  "id": "competition.social",
  "term": "competition",
  "sense": "social",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 16,
  "arena": "competition",
  "domain": "social",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "When separate individuals strive to obtain the same limited resource, their efforts influence one another.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "others.distinct-entities",
      "goal.purpose",
      "resource.material",
      "get.acquisition",
      "interacting.social",
      "work.effort"
    ],
    "interaction": "Distinct entities exert effort to acquire the same resource, and their actions mutually influence each other through social interaction.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "mutual influence under scarcity",
      "conflicting access attempts",
      "emergent rivalry"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2023, NVIDIA and AMD competed for market share in AI chips, each releasing faster GPUs within months of the other.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "Lions and hyenas in Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park kill each other's cubs to reduce competition for prey.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "During the 2020 U.S. presidential election, both major campaigns targeted Pennsylvania's 20 electoral votes as a decisive resource.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "sports.activity"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "competition",
    "competitions"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "definition",
      "note": "Definition rewritten to more accurately reflect the emergent phenomenon and incorporate necessary components. Added missing constitutive concepts: get.acquisition, interacting.social, work.effort. Ori"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-competition.social"
}