professional baseball
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- noun
- /prəˈfɛʃənl ˈbeɪsbɔl/
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béisbol profesional
- An athlete in his youth, he had quit school at fourteen to play professional baseball.
- professional baseball player
- American professional baseball
If my kid wants to be a professional baseball player, OK.
- If my kid wants to be a professional baseball player, OK.
- More people have played professional baseball in this country then then have been elected Congress.
- In Korea, the top teachers earn more than the highest paid professional baseball players.
- I want to just be such a great real estate investor and I I got my aim or hey, I want to, I don't know, play professional baseball for a kid.
Examples
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He's playing professional baseball.
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Bryan Miller's dream is to become a professional baseball player.
Blog text (16) -
If my kid wants to be a professional baseball player, OK.
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I had a dream as a little boy of playing professional baseball.
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It's a professional baseball team.
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Jake is a professional baseball player.
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I appreciate your follow and confidence in my son's professional baseball career.
Blog text (13) -
But it takes a real athlete to be a professional baseball player.
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The Cyclones won just by being there, Brooklyn's first professional baseball team since the Dodgers left forty-five years ago.
Fiction book (2002) -
Jake is a professional baseball player who has signed with a major league team.
How Professional
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'baseball played by paid athletes' is directly derivable from combining 'professional' (paid/occupational) with 'baseball' (the sport). This straightforward modifier+noun composition is common in English and other languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Professional baseball comes from when teams began to pay players to play as a job instead of just for fun; professional meant 'paid' and baseball is the sport. So today professional baseball means baseball played by people who are 'paid' and do it as their 'job'.