"pit against" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pits against",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pitting against",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pitted against",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pitted against",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "pit against (third-person singular simple present pits against, present participle pitting against, simple past and past participle pitted against)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (against)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Two of the greatest tennis players will be pitted against each other in next week's final.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 October 20, Philip Haigh, “Network News: Revised Manchester timetable due in December 2022”, in RAIL, number 942, page 27",
          "text": "This prompted January's timetable consultation with options that, according to Chester West and Chester Councillor Andrew Cooper last March, pitted councils against each other.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 December 9, Tripp Mickle, Cade Metz, Mike Isaac, Karen Weise, “Inside OpenAI’s Crisis Over the Future of Artificial Intelligence”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "Some board members believed that Mr. Altman was trying to pit them against each other. Last month, they decided to act.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To set in opposition to someone or something else."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "opposition",
          "opposition"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, idiomatic) To set in opposition to someone or something else."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to set in opposition",
          "word": "gegen ausspielen (etwas, jemanden)"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "english": "against one another",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to set in opposition",
          "word": "gegeneinander ausspielen"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to set in opposition",
          "word": "suprotstaviti se"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to set in opposition",
          "word": "sukobiti se"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pit against"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pits against",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pitting against",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pitted against",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pitted against",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "pit against (third-person singular simple present pits against, present participle pitting against, simple past and past participle pitted against)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs with particle (against)",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Two of the greatest tennis players will be pitted against each other in next week's final.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 October 20, Philip Haigh, “Network News: Revised Manchester timetable due in December 2022”, in RAIL, number 942, page 27",
          "text": "This prompted January's timetable consultation with options that, according to Chester West and Chester Councillor Andrew Cooper last March, pitted councils against each other.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 December 9, Tripp Mickle, Cade Metz, Mike Isaac, Karen Weise, “Inside OpenAI’s Crisis Over the Future of Artificial Intelligence”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "Some board members believed that Mr. Altman was trying to pit them against each other. Last month, they decided to act.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To set in opposition to someone or something else."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "opposition",
          "opposition"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, idiomatic) To set in opposition to someone or something else."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to set in opposition",
      "word": "gegen ausspielen (etwas, jemanden)"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "english": "against one another",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to set in opposition",
      "word": "gegeneinander ausspielen"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to set in opposition",
      "word": "suprotstaviti se"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to set in opposition",
      "word": "sukobiti se"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pit against"
}