basketball league
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2.3
- noun
- /ˈbæskɪtˌbɔl liɡ/
:
liga de baloncesto
- The high school basketball league features teams from several schools competing for the championship.
- a professional basketball league
- a women's basketball league
Examples
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It would be 16 years before there would be another professional basketball league for women in the U.S.
Academic text (1998) -
In 1986, Nancy Lieberman joined the Springfield Flame of the United States Basketball League (USBL), becoming the first woman to play in a men's professional basketball league.
Academic text (1998) -
The NBA is the best and most popular basketball league in the world.
Blog text (24) -
There's this Korean basketball league which is completely crazy.
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The "Y" organized the first basketball league in 1912 and initiated the first national championship in 1919.
Academic text (1994) -
Aerobics classes for the ladies in the basement, basketball leagues for the men.
Academic text (2016) -
Also, in 1976, the first women's professional basketball league was planned, but it never materialized.
Academic text (1998) -
Members of the University's co-ed recreational basketball league were then approached to participate in the study, and a list of possible recreational participants was developed.
Academic text (2003) -
After years of no women's professional basketball in the United States, since 1997 to the present, there are now two women's professional basketball leagues in this country.
Academic text (1998) -
Rejeski, Darracott, and Hutslar (1979) studied coaches and players in a youth basketball league and found that high-expectancy children received more positive reinforcement while low-expectancy children received more general instruction.
Academic text (1996)
Synonyms
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2.4
A group of teams that play each other in a competition
How Competitive
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is a direct and transparent composition of 'basketball' (the sport) + 'league' (an organization of competing teams); a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer it denotes an organization or competition for basketball teams. This noun–noun compound follows a common, cross-linguistic compounding pattern with no idiomatic shift, so the sense is immediately predictable from the parts.
Etymology
Basketball league joins basketball, the game, and league, a group of teams who play each other. Imagine teams meeting many times in planned games, so it means 'an organization of basketball teams that compete against each other'.