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league | American Dictionary

league
noun[ C ]
us/liɡ/

leaguenoun[C] (SPORTS)

a group of teams or players in a sport who take part in competitions against each other:
Our team has the worst record in the league.
Do you belong to a bowling league?
A league is also a group in which all the players, people, or things are on approximately the same level:
His new movie is just not in the same league as his last one (= not as good as the one before).

leaguenoun[C] (ORGANIZATION)

a group of people or countries that join together because they have the same interest:
the League of Nations
 in league withfml
If someone is in league with someone else, they have agreed secretly to do something together, esp. something illegal or wrong:
They were in league with their accountants to cheat the government by hiding their real income.

Examples of league

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The national observers were commissioned by churches and various non-governmental bodies, including the human rights leagues.
Although some teams and leagues were integrated, baseball was never as democratic and meritocratic as its promoters claimed.
In these respects, the minor leagues and residencies are quite analogous.
The big leagues are far superior to the little leagues.
Now the phrase "big/major leagues" is used to describe things of a giant scale or of great importance.
The programme of the anti-bolshevik leagues of 1919 was repeated word-for-word.
Politically, this area was divided into independent villages and leagues of villages.
The dimensions of this cut are fixed by the league's specifications.
The pluriactive sharecroppers did not face the collectivisation demands of the land leagues.
Instead, old village leagues and alliances among segmentary societies formed the core of the rebellion.
Yes; at the distance of a thousand leagues!
Here, above all, belong the legal prohibitions against political organizations, as well as against leagues of organizations each of which, individually, is permitted.
In contrast, a variety of refugee advocacy organisations, church groups, pacifist leagues, solidarity associations, and other non-profit groups take the latter position.
On the one hand the ' white ' leagues began a bitter series of strikes.
Although the place might be many leagues away, they went in such haste that in a shor t time they placed the fire there.
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Collocations withleague

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These are words often used in combination with league.

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amateur league
Yet here we are still, it seems to me, wanting to play in the amateurleague; gentlemen players, more concerned it seems to show the flag than to win exports.
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