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ballpark
[ bawl-pahrk ]
noun
- a tract of land where ball games, especially baseball, are played.
- a baseball stadium.
adjective
- Informal. being an approximation, based on an educated guess:
Give me a ballpark figure on our total expenses for next year.
ballpark
/ ˈbɔːlˌpɑːk /
noun
- a stadium used for baseball games
- informal.
- approximate range
in the right ballpark
- ( as modifier )
a ballpark figure
- informal.a situation; state of affairs
it's a whole new ballpark for him
Word History and Origins
Idioms and Phrases
- in the ballpark, Informal. within reasonable, acceptable, or expected limits:
The price may go up another $10, but that's still in the ballpark.
Example Sentences
At most ballparks and arenas, there’s a hot dog-buying, finding-my-seat murmur beneath the song.
So you know whether the affordability is going to be in the ballpark.
The team had been told by their affiliate Detroit Tigers to improve the ballpark, and they were responding, with a brand-new diamond and outfield, a team store, a left-field plaza and a kid zone on the way.
Vogel returned to the ballpark Wednesday, and while the decorations have long been removed, the scene was no less festive.
Emily Grubert, a professor of environmental engineering at Georgia Tech, wanted to get a ballpark picture of how many fossil power plants may be “stranded” by climate policy—that is, shuttered before they’ve recouped their costs.
At that moment the chant “We want Gehrig, we want Gehrig” started to rumble from every corner of the big ballpark.
The AHA stepped up to the plate, but instead of an out-of-the-ballpark home run, it fouled out.
Still, the numbers give you a rough idea of the ballpark expenditure.
Happy birthday Wrigley Field, but are you too beautiful of a ballpark?
So what and how he is able to “act out” and the magnitude of his less-than-stellar decisions is a whole different ballpark.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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