Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Sports Of or relating to a major league.
- adjective Informal Prominent or important.
- adjective Informal Impressive, as in extent or quantity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a
major league . - adjective Among the best or most important of its class.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective sports Of or belonging to the professional level of a sport, particularly
baseball in the United States. - adjective By extension,
high-level ,significant .
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Examples
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After that, you've got a public pantsing of a so-called major-league team, which requires some quality pantsing when you're talking about a team that takes a month to fire a general manager.
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Now, the point here is not that Harper doesn't need the work or doesn't need to improve against major-league breaking stuff.
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The Mets ended up taking another pitcher, Philip Humber, who would appear in only five major-league games for them.
Salvation Was One Pick Away Brian Costa 2011
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It's difficult enough for a team to draft and develop major-league pitchers, as the Mets have done with Mike Pelfrey, Jon Niese and Dillon Gee.
Salvation Was One Pick Away Brian Costa 2011
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Still only 22 years old, he arrived here last week for his fifth major-league spring training.
Martinez Is a Prodigy No More Brian Costa 2011
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You're getting a guy who's a star, a major-league star, and that's a huge addition to anybody's lineup.
Reporter's Notebook 2011
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These include voluntarily limiting scholarships, selling naming rights to the diamond, offering electronic game-day programs for smartphones and even squaring off against major-league teams.
The Cal Baseball Resurrection Hannah Karp 2011
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He made his major-league debut in May 2009, at age 20, but hit just .176 in 29 games before undergoing season-ending surgery to repair a torn meniscus in his right knee.
Martinez Is a Prodigy No More Brian Costa 2011
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We began by taking every hitter who had made at least 1,000 major-league plate appearances since 2007—a pool of 252.
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And with Carlos Beltran in the final year of his contract, the Mets will have an outfield opening at the major-league level in 2012.
Martinez Is a Prodigy No More Brian Costa 2011
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