Definition of "outcompete" []

• To be more successful than a competitor; especially to thrive in the presence of an organism that is competing for resources (verb)

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• "Escaped GM salmon could "outcompete" its wild counterpart by reproducing earlier and threatening its food supply."
• "- Spend the rest of your life a slave to the banking system because you're STUCK with thousands of dollars of student loans that you had to take out to "outcompete" everybody else."
• "The researchers suggest that countries use some of the future revenue generated from auctioning off greenhouse-gas pollution permits to fund these conservation efforts, but Polasky acknowledged it might be hard to "outcompete" other interest groups that will seek to channel these funds to programs such as "green" technology projects or energy subsidies for low-income Americans."