to vie with someone

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• compete with someone for — contend with someone for, vie for, struggle with someone for …   English contemporary dictionary

• vie — [vaı] v past tense and past participle vied present participle vying third person singular vies [Date: 1500 1600; : Old French; Origin: envier [i] to invite, challenge , from Latin invitare; INVITE1] to compete very hard with someone in order to… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• vie — [vī] vi. vied, vying [ME vien, aphetic for envien < OFr envier, to invite, vie in games < L invitare, to INVITE] to struggle for superiority (with someone) or enter into competition ( for something); compete vt. 1. Obs. to bet; wager;… …   English World dictionary

• with — /wɪð / (say widh), /wɪθ / (say with) preposition 1. accompanied by or accompanying: I will go with you. 2. in some particular relation to (especially implying interaction, company, association, conjunction, or connection): to deal, talk, sit,… …  

• vie — verb vied, vying (I) to compete very hard with someone in order to get something (+ for): Simon and Julian were vying for her attention all through dinner. | vie with sb to do sth: The major record companies are vying with each other to sign the… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• pit someone/something against — SET AGAINST, match against, put in opposition to, put in competition with; compete with, contend with, vie with, wrestle with. → pit …   Useful english dictionary

• take someone on — 1) there was no challenger to take him on Syn: compete against, oppose, challenge, confront, face, fight, vie with, contend with, stand up to 2) we took on extra staff Syn: engage, hire, employ …   Thesaurus of popular words

• take someone on — 1 there was no challenger to take him on: COMPETE AGAINST, oppose, challenge, confront, face, fight, vie with, contend with, stand up to. 2 we took on extra staff: ENGAGE, hire …   Useful english dictionary

• La Vie en rose (film) — Infobox Film name = La Vie en Rose image size = caption = director = Olivier Dahan producer = Alain Goldman writer = Isabelle Sobelman Olivier Dahan narrator = starring = Marion Cotillard Gérard Depardieu Sylvie Testud music = Christopher Gunning …   Wikipedia

• La vie comme elle vient (Lapinot) — Graphicnovelbox| title= La vie comme elle vient foreigntitle= caption=Cover of the French edition publisher=Dargaud date=2004 series= Les formidables aventures de Lapinot origlanguage=French origisbn= transtitle= transpublisher= transdate=… …   Wikipedia

• Rock of Love with Bret Michaels (season 2) — For the first season, see Rock of Love with Bret Michaels (season 1). For the third season, see Rock of Love Bus with Bret Michaels. Rock of Love 2 with Bret Michaels The cast of Rock of Love 2 Format …   Wikipedia