Ballpark (Noun)
Meaning 1
A facility in which ball games are played (especially baseball games); "take me out to the ballpark".
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The local team played their home games at a state-of-the-art ballpark on the outskirts of town.
- She loved going to the ballpark with her grandfather to watch baseball games every summer.
- The old ballpark had been in use since the 1920s and still maintained its nostalgic charm.
- As a kid, he dreamed of playing professional baseball in a major league ballpark one day.
- The city council voted to renovate the downtown ballpark to attract more tourists and fans.
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Meaning 2
Near to the scope or range of something; "his answer wasn't even in the right ballpark".
Classification
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects.
Examples
- The company's estimate for the project was way off, not even in the right ballpark.
- Her guess at the number of attendees was in the ballpark, but still a bit too high.
- The price he quoted was not in the ballpark of what we were willing to pay.
- His estimate of the cost was in the ballpark, so we decided to move forward with the project.
- The new employee's salary expectations were not even in the ballpark of what we could offer.