1 [U] ~ (with sb/sth) the process of comparing two or more people or things:
Comparison with other oil-producing countries is extremely interesting. * I enclose the two plans for comparison. * The education system bears / stands no comparison with that in many Eastern European countries (= it is not as good). * For Durkheim, comparison was the most important method of analysis in sociology.
2 [C] ~ (of A and / to / with B)
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is comparison a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, comparison is tagged as noun.
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