Wiktionary
n. (context team sports slang English) A minor league baseball, ice hockey or other sports team, especially one concerned with player development.
WordNet
n. a minor-league team that is owned by a major-league team (especially in baseball) [syn: farm club]
Wikipedia
In sports, a farm team, farm system, feeder team, or nursery club, is generally a team or club whose role is to provide experience and training for young players, with an agreement that any successful players can move on to a higher level at a given point. This system can be implemented in many ways, both formally and informally.
The term is also used as a metaphor for any organization or activity that serves as a training ground for higher-level endeavors. For instance, business schools are occasionally referred to as "farm clubs" in the world of business.
Usage examples of "farm team".
Michel's pupils opened further in the nimbus of starlight and leaf gleam, and he recognized members of the farm team, Iwao, Raul, Ellen, Rya, Gene, Evgenia, all of the farm team except for Hiroko herself.
Once, out walking with him to the salt pyramids they were constructing, he said something about the growing oddity of the farm team, and Maya pricked up her ears, thinking, If only you knew.
But from her conversations with Frank about Underhill affairs she judged that the problem of dealing with the farm team was going to develop slowly.
The codename of one of their operations in the early 1960s, also aboard a Navy Sky Warrior, seemed to sum up the problem: Farm Team.
By the time the farm team moved out there to it, I was used to spending a lot of time on my own.
In essence the farm team was already at their real work, which Maya envied.
Brunch is punishment block for the 'B'-Team cooks, or where the farm team of recent dishwashers learn their chops.
It's like being in the majors, then having to go down to the farm team in South Buttcrack.
And when the Bogg's Farm team administered a crushing defeat to Madden's Hill, Willie grew desperate.