most valuable player
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3.1
- noun
- /moʊst ˈvæljuːəbl ˈpleɪər/
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jugador más valioso
- Conger, 22, was named most valuable player, and the president of the Hall of Fame, Jeff Idelson, collected his bat for Cooperstown.
- most valuable player award
- most valuable player this season
- league's most valuable player
I won't call it man of the match, Most Valuable Player of the match.
- I won't call it man of the match, Most Valuable Player of the match.
- I would say first of all, MVP, as you know, in athletics, MVP is Most Valuable Player.
Examples
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I was the most valuable player on my team.
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We are a better team at home—with respect to Seattle and Atlanta, possibly the best home team in the league—and the Oakland offense is banged up, missing its most valuable player, McFadden.
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Anyone who was once the most valuable player of the National Football League must have a great deal of expertise to offer.
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The most valuable player is the player that does the most for the team, which is not always the player with the best statistics.
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In my opinion, he was the Sharks' most valuable player last season and likely still has a few years of his prime remaining.
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He was a three-time winner of the league's most valuable player award.
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Ross Travis is one of the most valuable players on the team (next to Tim Frazier).
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Our analyst Todd McShay said on SportsCenter this week that Miller was one of the five most valuable players in college football.
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In my estimation, A-Rod was probably the fifth-most valuable player on the Yankees, behind Mussina, Mariano Rivera, Johnny Damon, and Bobby Abreu.
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Jerry Rice was named the most valuable player after catching 11 passes for a record 215 yards.
Synonyms
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4.4
A player judged most valuable to their team's success
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2.0
A team member who is the best and most important
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently built from the constituents: superlative 'most' + 'valuable' (having high worth/contribution) + 'player' yields 'the player who is most valuable'. This compositional pattern is common cross-linguistically (e.g., Spanish 'jugador más valioso') and follows standard adjective-noun semantics, so a B1 learner who knows the parts will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Most valuable player began in team sports when one player was given an award for being the most valuable, the person who helped the team the most. So today Most valuable player means 'the player who helped their team the most'.