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CLEANUP POSITION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cleanup position mean?
• CLEANUP POSITION (noun)
The noun CLEANUP POSITION has 1 sense:
1. (baseball) the fourth position in the batting order (usually filled by the best batter on the team)
Familiarity information: CLEANUP POSITION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(baseball) the fourth position in the batting order (usually filled by the best batter on the team)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
cleanup; cleanup position; cleanup spot
Hypernyms ("cleanup position" is a kind of...):
position ((in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player)
Domain category:
ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)
Holonyms ("cleanup position" is a part of...):
batting order; card; lineup ((baseball) a list of batters in the order in which they will bat)
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