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- Dictionaryvie/vʌɪ/
verb
- 1. compete eagerly with someone in order to do or achieve something: "the athletes were vying for a place in the British team"
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VIE definition: 1. to compete with other people to achieve or get something: 2. to compete with other people to…. Learn more.
The meaning of VIE is to strive for superiority : contend, compete. How to use vie in a sentence.
Vie definition: to strive in competition or rivalry with another; contend for superiority. See examples of VIE used in a sentence.
To vie for something means to compete for it. Two teams may vie for the gold medal, but one will have to go home with silver. Vie may be spelled the same as the French word, vie, but they are pronounced differently, vī and vē respectively, and are not related in meaning or history.
to try hard to do something more successfully than someone else: The children were vying for attention. [ + to do sth ] Film crews were vying with each other to get the best pictures. (Definition of vie from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Definition of 'vie' Word Frequency. vie. (vaɪ ) Word forms: 3rd person singular present tense vies , present participle vying , past tense, past participle vied. verb. If one person or thing is vying with another for something, the people or things are competing for it. [formal]
Definition of vie verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
