Usually means: Adversary competing against another entity.
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  1. opponent: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. opponent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. opponent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. opponent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. opponent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Opponent, opponent, opponent: Wordnik
  7. opponent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. opponent: Wiktionary
  9. opponent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. opponent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. opponent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. opponent: Dictionary.com
  13. opponent: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. opponent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Opponent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Opponent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. opponent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. opponent: Rhymezone
  19. opponent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. opponent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. opponent: Free Dictionary
  22. opponent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. opponent: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. opponent: Legal dictionary

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  1. opponent: Encyclopedia

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  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

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noun:  One who opposes another; one who works or takes a position against someone or something; one who attempts to stop the progress of someone or something.
noun:  One who opposes another physically (in a fight, sport, game, or competition).
noun:  One who opposes another in words (in a dispute, argument or controversy).
noun:  One who is opposed or objects (to a policy, course of action or set of ideas).
noun:  (historical) The participant who opens an academic debate by putting forward objections to a theological or philosophical thesis.
adjective:  (obsolete) Opposing; adverse; antagonistic.
adjective:  (obsolete) Situated in front; opposite.

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