minor-league team
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2.9
- noun
- US
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equipo de ligas menores
- No, I'm on my way to Visalia to see our minor-league team.
- minor-league team played
- season for a minor-league team
- top minor-league team
Examples
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Survey data were collected at a minor league team's home games on two consecutive nights.
Academic text (2003) -
The 50-year-old Clemens signed with the Sugar Land (Texas) Skeeters of the independent Atlantic League on Monday, and he is expected to start for the minor league team on Saturday at home against Bridgeport.
Blog text (12) -
You wanna manage a minor league team?
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There are pro and minor league teams out here, as I'm sure you know, so I hope that helps!
Blog text (29) -
The 1939 Kansas City Blues might be the greatest minor league team ever.
Blog text (5) -
Michael signs a contract to play for the Birmingham Barons, a Chicago White Sox minor league team.
Fiction book (2001) -
Miami may not need another stadium, but a ballpark to attract a minor-league team might be just the thing for a struggling small town.
Academic text (1998) -
And now, the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre minor league team, the Triple-A affiliate of the New York Yankees, is affectionately known as the RailRiders.
Blog text (12) -
Minor league teams often position themselves, relative to both direct competition (other professional sporting events) and indirect competition (e.g., dinner and a movie), as a form of entertainment with exceptional value, and our results bear out the appropriateness of this strategy.
Academic text (2003) -
The local minor-league team had a fantastic season, winning the championship against their rivals.
Synonyms
A sports team that plays in a lower league below the top teams
Antonyms
How High-Level
Surface Forms
Morphology
minor-league + team
The meaning is directly derivable from the constituents: 'minor' (lesser or lower-level) + 'league' (a sports division) combine to form a modifier meaning a lower-level competition, and 'team' (a group) yields 'a team that competes in a lower-level league'. This adjective-compound + noun pattern is transparent and common cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows the parts will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Minor-league team The noun minor-league team comes from sports where a minor group of players plays in a lower league to learn and get better before joining the 'big leagues'. So today it means 'a team that plays in a lower-level professional or semi-professional league'.