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MINOR-LEAGUE TEAM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does minor-league team mean? 

MINOR-LEAGUE TEAM (noun)
  The noun MINOR-LEAGUE TEAM has 1 sense:

1. a team that plays in a minor leagueplay

  Familiarity information: MINOR-LEAGUE TEAM used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MINOR-LEAGUE TEAM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A team that plays in a minor league

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

minor-league club; minor-league team

Hypernyms ("minor-league team" is a kind of...):

squad; team (a cooperative unit (especially in sports))

Meronyms (members of "minor-league team"):

bush leaguer; minor leaguer (a player on a minor-league baseball team)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "minor-league team"):

farm club; farm team (a minor-league team that is owned by a major-league team (especially in baseball))

Holonyms ("minor-league team" is a member of...):

bush league; minor league; minors (a league of teams that do not belong to a major league (especially baseball))


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