PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does professional baseball mean? 

• PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL (noun)
  The noun PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL has 1 sense:

1. playing baseball for money

  Familiarity information: PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Playing baseball for money

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("professional baseball" is a kind of...):

sport (the occupation of athletes who compete for pay)

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)

 Context examples 

To test whether the same holds true for humans, the researchers recruited more than 100 professional baseball players at different stages of their careers.

(Physical Activity Brings Lasting Bone Benefits, NIH, US)

A study of professional baseball players showed that some benefits of building bone during youth can last a lifetime.

(Physical Activity Brings Lasting Bone Benefits, NIH, US)