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away team

away team noun: the visiting team; the team that is playing away from home.

Noun

away team (plural away teams)

  1. The visiting team; the team that is playing away from home.
    • Comparisons were made between the home and away team's number of fouls and violations.1960, Peter Lynn Kasson, An Analysis of College Basketball Officiating, page 25
    • During this analysis, it became apparent that the home team seemed to be receiving proportionately greater generosity from the referee than the away team.1997, Jens Bangsbo, Thomas Reilly, Mike Hughes, Science and Football III: Proceedings of the Third World Congress of Science

Examples of away team in a sentence

  • They also echo Jennett (1984), in using a variable measuring away team market size.2000, Paul Downward, Alistair Dawson, The Economics of Professional Team Sports:
  • In 56 games, the home team was favored and the away team won.2005, Susan B. Gerber, Using SPSS for Windows: Data Analysis and Graphics, page 79:
  • He found no differences between home and away team performances when spectators cheered before the start of a play.2007, Sophia Jowett, David Lavallee, Social Psychology in Sport, page 108:

Synonyms of away team

Forms of away team

pluralaway teams

Questions about away team

What does away team mean?
Away team means the visiting team; the team that is playing away from home.
How do you use away team in a sentence?
They also echo Jennett (1984), in using a variable measuring away team market size.
What part of speech is away team?
Away team is a noun.
What is the plural of away team?
The plural of away team is away teams.

Words near away team in the dictionary

  1. away message
  2. away messages
  3. away side
  4. away sides
  5. away swing
  6. away team
  7. away teams
  8. away there
  9. away to the races
  10. away with the fairies
  11. away with the pixies

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