Adjective : the rivalrous aspect of their friendship.    From Dictionary.com. 

The economists you encountered in Chapter 1 have, with their usual linguistic felicity, coined the terms "rivalrous" and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference

Rival: (Wikipedia seems to call this "rivalrous", but when I were a young economist lass we used to call it rival so I'll stick with that.).    From Wordnik.com.  ["BANPC" via James Bow in Google Reader] Reference

They soon became nasty and rivalrous to each other.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

How rivalrous of Knightley did she feel off-screen?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hayley Atwell: 'The real me is a loner, a nerd and a bit overweight'] Reference

Consumption of the internet connection is rivalrous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scrivener's Error] Reference

The economic generating power of the rights is rivalrous.    From Wordnik.com.  [IP Scholars conference, second parallel session] Reference

Economically, they're both non-rivalrous and non-excludable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-05-18] Reference

With rivalrous property, one person's use precludes another's.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference

Works can be non-rivalrous in consumption, but rights are rivalrous.    From Wordnik.com.  [IP Scholars conference, second parallel session] Reference

I really hate it when anyone compares a rivalrous good to a non-rivalrous good.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Do Markets Give Us Too Few Choices?] Reference

But it seems - luckily - I was wrong about spectrum necessarily being rivalrous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Real Spectrum Commons] Reference

On the other hand, the chart is measuring what is neither rivalrous nor complete.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » This Pie Goes To 193%] Reference

Coase's insight -- most prescient -- is that spectrum is not in its nature rivalrous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: February 23, 2003 - March 1, 2003 Archives] Reference

Private property rights to physical goods exist because physical goods are rivalrous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Copyright and Morals] Reference

For all these goings-on were meat and drink to London's vibrant, rivalrous press world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Revels and Reverberations] Reference

If King owns the paper, then the kid cannot also own it at the same time ... it is rivalrous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tax Cuts for the Rich, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

Women, including Prime Minister Hasina, head the two major and intentionally rivalrous parties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Briefing By Staff On India Trip] Reference

Thus, if virtual world objects are rivalrous, why not treat them the same as physical property?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Works in progress: Scott Boone] Reference

Rivalry is a continuum – my pen is much more rivalrous than my yard, given the way I use them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alternatives to the Copyright Power] Reference

The economists shake their heads. 1 The petunia farmer is selling something that is "a rivalrous good.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference

Questions for discussion: At what point is a digital copy sufficiently rivalrous to merit property rights?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Works in progress: Scott Boone] Reference

There is no way of giving away seats at the Olympics for zero cost, because they are scarce, rivalrous resources.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behold! The New Anti-Open Access FUD] Reference

A: If digital copies are rivalrous, we should look at bringing personal property rights back into the discussion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Works in progress: Scott Boone] Reference

If we attempt to jump into the existing rivalrous market of demographic stop-'n'-shop, we are surely going to lose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Demographics and Sacred Music] Reference

But the non-rivalrous property of digital information is a gift of nature that we've already grasped and put to work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blizzards and Beauty: An Ode to Open Access] Reference

The difference between real estate and intellectual property is that real estate is naturally and inevitably rivalrous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Double Standard of Libertarian Paternalism] Reference

One of them recites the definition of a public good as "non-rivalrous and non-excludable" possibly in the reverse order.    From Wordnik.com.  [Favorite Economics Dialogues in Movies, David Henderson | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

You don't have to be Freud or Sophocles to conjure up some rivalrous or rebellious feelings of the son toward the father.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE ROAD TO RESOLVE] Reference

BTW, education is clearly NOT a public good, as it flunks both the tests of non-excludability and non-rivalrous consumption.    From Wordnik.com.  [Teacher Pay, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

These digital manifestations loose their excludable and rivalrous status and effectively become public goods (cf. Wikipedia).    From Wordnik.com.  [Copyright in a digital world] Reference

It certainly isn't so they can sell that rivalrous, persistent, interconnected part of their picture separate to the rest of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Let the games begin!] Reference

An account of the Renaissance geniuses Michelangelo and Leonardo reveals the rivalrous passion in their work, writes Peter Conrad.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Battles by Jonathan Jones] Reference

His rivalrous hatred of Orlando grows out of resentment for the affection that others bestow on Orlando instead of on Oliver himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare]

However big or small the group, and however defined, they will always be rivalrous, one group attempting to dominate the other group.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

It seems the difference between the uniqueness or rivalrous-nature of a SaaS client versus a virtual world consumer is essentially nil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lehdonvirta on Virtual Consumption] Reference

The oddball father figure, the self-protectively aloof mother, the rivalrous siblings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philly.com - Latest Videos] Reference

There's a (slightly too cute) shy love scene and a rivalrous male duet right out of a buddy flick.    From Wordnik.com. Reference