noncompetitor

noun

non·​com·​pet·​i·​tor ˌnän-kəm-ˈpe-tə-tər 

plural noncompetitors

: one that does not compete : a person, company, etc., that is not a competitor

About 600 to 700 attendees are expected to attend along with hundreds of noncompetitors, guests, and officials.

—Jeanne Muchnick

… resisted the commission's suggestion that it sell a stake to a competitor, instead offering … to sell up to 19.9 percent of the aviation financing business to a noncompetitor.

—Andrew Ross Sorkin and Paul Meller

Word History

First Known Use

1851, in the meaning defined above