GROUND RULE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ground rule mean? 

• GROUND RULE (noun)
  The noun GROUND RULE has 1 sense:

1. (baseball) a special rule (as in baseball) dealing with situations that arise due to the nature of the playing grounds

  Familiarity information: GROUND RULE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GROUND RULE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(baseball) a special rule (as in baseball) dealing with situations that arise due to the nature of the playing grounds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("ground rule" is a kind of...):

rule (directions that define the way a game or sport is to be conducted)

Domain category:

ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)