Definition of "vie" []

• To strive for victory or superiority; contend. See Synonyms at rival. (verb-intransitive)
• Archaic To offer in competition; match. (verb-transitive)
• Obsolete To wager or bet. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Ohio State and Penn State could again vie for the conference championship, and a Nov. 7 date in Happy Valley could determine the outcome."
• "More often places and their names are representative of abstract ideas: America, Vietnam, the Riviera which, as Godard points out, contains the word vie for "life", Las Vegas."
• "II. i.310 (393,9) [kill on kiss She vy's so fast] I know not that the word vie has any construction that will suit this place; we may easily read,"