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Definition of "major-league" []

  • Sports Of or relating to a major league: major-league baseball. (adjective)
  • Informal Prominent or important: a major-league ballet company; a major-league decision. (adjective)
  • Informal Impressive, as in extent or quantity: "a destination for major-league wooing” ( Bryan Miller). (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "major-league" in a sentence
  • "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."
  • "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."
  • "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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