English

Noun

rivalship ‎(plural rivalships)

1. Rivalry
   • 1776 — Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, page 759

     Where the competition is free, the rivalship of competitors, who are all endeavouring to justle one another out of employment, obliges every man to endeavour to execute his work with a certain degree of exactness.

References

• rivalship in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913