major-league team
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- noun
- /ˈmeɪdʒər liɡ tim/
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equipo de las grandes ligas
- In the contest to attract a major-league team to the Bay Area, the spirit of boosterism and media attention there turned from mass transit to baseball.
- 28 major-league teams
- players on major-league teams
- major-league team's 40-man roster
Examples
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The major league team has steadily improved the last two years, regardless of collapses.
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The Sox will be facing the Rays, who have a 3.24 ERA, the lowest among 30 major league teams.
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Played a major league team in a major league stadium.
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Representatives from every major league team are coming here tomorrow to watch us play.
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Every major league team has a history of big hits and major misses in the June free agent draft.
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That year, a black player named Jackie Robinson was signed to a white major-league team.
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In 1987, Skeels was the first-ever Kiwi drafted by a major league team.
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Prior to that, there were no major league teams west of St. Louis—the Dodgers and Giants were about to change that.
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Representatives from every major-league team are coming here tomorrow to watch us play.
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He's got scouts from six different major-league teams looking at him.
Synonyms
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A team that plays in the top professional sports league, like baseball
How Professional
Surface Forms
Morphology
major-league + team
The meaning 'a team that competes in the highest professional division' is directly derivable from combining 'major' (important/high-level) and 'league' (a division or competition); the compound 'major league' transparently signals the top level. This compositional pattern is common in English and in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would likely understand it.
Etymology
Major-league team comes from the image of sports leagues in levels: the word major points to the biggest, top group and league is the group of teams, so a team in that group plays at the highest level. So, a major-league team means 'a team that plays in the top professional division'.