home stand
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5.0
- noun
- /hoʊm stænd/
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serie de partidos en casa
- Fans filled the stadium to support the players throughout the exciting home stand against rival teams.
- a three-game home stand
Like, I can't wait for home stands next year because this year things were rushed as they should be in a new league.
- Like, I can't wait for home stands next year because this year things were rushed as they should be in a new league.
Examples
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That does not leave the Mets with many options going into a home stand against the Yankees (who are looking to turn things around after the brutal Red Sox loss and Tampa sweep) and the Phillies.
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A&M wrapped up a three-game home stand to start the season that included victories over
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I called a practice on my day off on our last home stand.
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Hate to end a home stand like that on a technicality.
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Jimmy has been a spark plug during this home stand.
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Now they must put it all together over an important six-game home stand with three games against the Diamondbacks and three games against the Dodgers.
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But with a 3-game home stand and time growing short on the season, especially the more experienced Beavers should step up this week and underscore why they are a top 15 team, and California is not.
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We've all witnessed the mounting frustration for Ross, who has gone hitless in the first two games against the Astros in this, his final home stand.
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The struggles that derailed UMass in the second game of its weekend home stand were made all the more difficult to swallow because of the relative ease with which the team handled its Friday victory over Saint Joseph's.
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The team won four out of five games during their recent home stand.
Synonyms
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5.1
A series of games a team plays at its home stadium or arena
Surface Forms
Morphology
Although 'home' signals location, the sense of 'stand' in this phrase is specialized sports jargon meaning a run or series of consecutive games; that meaning is not derivable from the general noun 'stand' (a place for spectators). A B1 learner who knows the constituent words would therefore be unlikely to infer the MWE's sports-specific meaning without prior exposure.
Etymology
The noun home stand comes from sports: home is the team's own field and stand gives the image of staying in one place to play several games in a row. So a home stand means 'a series of games played at the team's home ground'.