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What is "minor-league"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
minor-league
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a minor-league catcher
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Because they made a deal with a bail-bondsman to find a minor-league crook suspected of jumping a $ 25, 000 bond.
▪ Eric Karros played six innings in a minor-league game Tuesday and was encouraged by his progress.
▪ Eric Karros, slowly rehabilitating his pulled left hamstring, took more than a dozen at-bats in two minor-league games on Wednesday.
▪ He hit at least 24 homers in three different minor-league seasons.
▪ In six minor-league seasons, he's never hit above.275 or hit more than 15 homers.
▪ The Dodgers on Wednesday assigned nine non-roster invitees to minor-league affiliates.
▪ The Hansons were played by three young minor-league hockey players.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
minor-league

minor-league \minor-league\ a. Of or pertaining to a minor league.

2. Of mediocre talent or poor accomplishment; unimportant; -- of people; as, a minor-league physicist.

Wiktionary
minor-league

a. 1 (context US English) Of or pertaining to a minor league 2 Of relatively minor importance

Usage examples of "minor-league".

It was just a ballyard, like hundreds of other minor-league parks he’d been through: covered grandstand, bleachers out in back of left and right, advertisements pasted on the boards of the outfield fences—faded, peeling, tattered advertisements now, because nobody in Hot Springs was advertising much of anything these days.

That was even worse than the greasy spoons he'd haunted as he bounced from one minor-league town to the next.

They went there often, and Elizabeth went without the feeling that she was walking into some minor-league Don Juan's passion pit.

He didn't even get into the lineup until after the Sox broke camp, and then he went in only as a pinch hitter against minor-league opposition.