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ballpark
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun ballpark has 2 senses
- ballpark(n = noun.artifact) park - a facility in which ball games are played (especially baseball games); "take me out to the ballpark" has parts: ball field, baseball field, diamond, bullpen, dugout, stand
- ballpark(n = noun.attribute) approximate range - near to the scope or range of something; "his answer wasn't even in the right ballpark" is a kind of ambit, compass, orbit, range, reach, scope
is a kind of arena, bowl, sports stadium, stadium
OXFORD DICTIONARY
ballpark, n. US 1 a baseball ground.
2 (attrib.) colloq. approximate, rough (a ballpark figure).
2 (attrib.) colloq. approximate, rough (a ballpark figure).
Idiom
in the right ballpark colloq. close to one's objective; approximately correct.
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