minor leaguer
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- noun
- /ˈmaɪnər ˈliːɡər/
- US
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jugador de ligas menores
- The minor leaguer worked hard every day, hoping to get promoted to the major leagues.
- Astros minor leaguers
- career minor leaguer
- journeyman minor leaguer
Examples
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Dude is a minor leaguer.
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College kids or minor leaguers are not a realistic offer.
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Sign a pair of minor leaguers.
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LA has too many starters and would be willing to deal a starter for some minor leaguers.
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I'm sure a couple of the minor leaguers will make their way to Seattle, and from that point it's up to them.
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Two career minor leaguers who happen to be roommates.
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So do the Orioles not allow any of their minor leaguers to throw that pitch?
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Seattle has a lot of interesting minor leaguers to dangle during the winter meetings...
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Davey will move a talented minor leaguer into that slot without even thinking about it and still win.
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We don't have any young, cheap minor leaguer who we can plug in as an upgrade and get better production.
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Synonyms
A baseball player on a minor league team
A person who plays in small or amateur leagues, especially baseball
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'minor' (a lower-level or not-major division) + 'leaguer' (a member of a league), so a learner who knows those words can infer 'a player in a minor league.' This follows a common English compound pattern (modifier + agent noun) and has clear cross-linguistic equivalents, making it immediately comprehensible to B1 learners.
Etymology
Minor leaguer comes from baseball: a minor is a lower-level team and a league is a group of teams, so a minor leaguer is a player in the smaller leagues. That's why today it means 'a player who is a member of a minor-league baseball team'.