ballpark
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noun
1.
a tract of land where ball games, especially baseball, are played.
2.
a baseball stadium.
adjective
Idioms 3.
Informal. being an approximation, based on an educated guess: Give me a ballpark figure on our total expenses for next year.
4.
in the ballpark, Informal. within reasonable, acceptable, or expected limits: The price may go up another $10, but that's still in the ballpark.
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| —n | |
| 1. | (US), (Canadian) a stadium used for baseball games |
| 2. | informal |
| a. approximate range: in the right ballpark | |
| b. (as modifier): a ballpark figure | |
| 3. | informal a situation; state of affairs: it's a whole new ballpark for him |
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ballpark
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
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Word Origin & History
ballpark
"baseball stadium," 1899, from (base)ball + park. Fig. sense of "acceptable range of approximation" first recorded 1960, originally referring to area within which a spacecraft was expected to return to earth; the reference is to broad but reasonably predictable dimensions.
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Example sentences
The repair in question was not quite within the original planned scope, but it wasn't out of the ballpark, either.
She left the ballpark with a concussion and a broken jaw.
For an inside look at the ballpark, take a stadium tour.
Going to the ballpark, visiting friends and playing bingo are simple diversions for many of us.
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