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同意語

• (all senses): big league, majors, big time
• (association): superleague, elite league

等位語

• (both senses): minor league, minors, bush league

派生語

形容詞

major league (comparative more major league, superlative most major league)

1. (sports) Of or pertaining to a major sports league; belonging to the professional level of a sport, such as US baseball.
2. (by extension) Analogous in importance to a major league sports team.

   That rock band is really major league.

   Calatrava is a major league architect.

3. (figurative) Serious, high-level; significant

   The company made a major league effort to get the contract.

   Bill accidentally faxed sensitive documents to our competitors, and such a major league mess-up could only be dealt with by firing Bill.

   • 1991, Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho, London: Picador, →ISBN, page 148:

     […] I'm experiencing a major-league anxiety attack, searching my pockets for Valium, Xanax, a leftover Halcion, anything, and all I find are three faded Nuprin in a Gucci pill-box, so I pop all three into my mouth and swallow them down with a Diet Pepsi and I couldn’t tell you where it came from if my life depended on it.

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