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home and away

home and away is the alternative form of home-and-away.

Meaning of home-and-away

Adjective

home-and-away (not comparable)

  1. (UK) Of a series of two matches: having one game played at each competitor's home ground.
    • the practicalities of how a play-off system could work: whether it should take the form of a home-and-away knockout system, similar to that in the Football League, or incorporate seeding2010 February 10, David Conn, “Premier League plans play-off for last Champions League place”, in The Guardian
    Synonyms:
    home-and-home

Questions about home and away

What is home and away the alternative form of?
Home and away is the alternative form of home-and-away.

Words near home and away in the dictionary

  1. Homburged
  2. homburgs
  3. home
  4. home advantage
  5. home advantages
  6. home and away
  7. home and dry
  8. home and hosed
  9. home appliance
  10. home appliances
  11. Home Army

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