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postseason

noun

Etymology

From post- + season.

  1. derived from *seh₁-✻
  2. derived from satiō
  3. derived from seson
  4. inherited from sesoun
  5. formed as postseason — “post- + season”

Definitions

  1. The period after the end of the normal sports season during which extra games are held…

    The period after the end of the normal sports season during which extra games are held (such as playoffs or championships).

    • If Rodriguez slumps and the Yankees stumble, pressure will mount on a manager who failed to guide the team to the playoffs in 2008, the first time the Yankees missed the postseason in a nonstrike year since 1993.
    • Suárez has only two more starts in the regular season to convince the Phillies he deserves a longer leash than in previous postseasons.

  2. Of or pertaining to such a period.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for postseason. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA