Ballpark
noun
A place where baseball games are played.
We are going to the ballpark to watch the game tonight.
noun
A rough estimate or range of an amount or value.
The total cost of the project will be in the ballpark of $40,000.
Often appears as...
- in the ballpark
- ballpark figure
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Colloquial
adjective
Approximately correct or within an acceptable range.
I'm not certain what the price will be, but $500 is a ballpark figure.
Often appears as...
- ballpark figure
- ballpark estimate
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Colloquial
noun
A place where baseball games are played.
We are going to the ballpark to watch the game tonight.
noun
A rough estimate or range of an amount or value.
The total cost of the project will be in the ballpark of $40,000.
Often appears as...
- in the ballpark
- ballpark figure
Usage tips
Colloquial
adjective
Approximately correct or within an acceptable range.
I'm not certain what the price will be, but $500 is a ballpark figure.
Often appears as...
- ballpark figure
- ballpark estimate
Usage tips
Colloquial
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Baseball Connection
Relates to baseball, so it's often used in American culture where the sport is popular.
He collects souvenirs from different ballparks.
Pro Tip 2/3Sport Venue
A ballpark is a specific type of stadium, designed mainly for baseball.
The new ballpark has a seating capacity of 30,000.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Icon
Many ballparks are landmarks and hold historical significance.
Fenway Park is one of the most iconic ballparks in the U.S.
Pro Tip 1/3Baseball Connection
Relates to baseball, so it's often used in American culture where the sport is popular.
He collects souvenirs from different ballparks.
Pro Tip 2/3Sport Venue
A ballpark is a specific type of stadium, designed mainly for baseball.
The new ballpark has a seating capacity of 30,000.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Icon
Many ballparks are landmarks and hold historical significance.
Fenway Park is one of the most iconic ballparks in the U.S.
Pro Tip 1/3Baseball Connection
Relates to baseball, so it's often used in American culture where the sport is popular.
He collects souvenirs from different ballparks.
Pro Tip 2/3Sport Venue
A ballpark is a specific type of stadium, designed mainly for baseball.
The new ballpark has a seating capacity of 30,000.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Icon
Many ballparks are landmarks and hold historical significance.
Fenway Park is one of the most iconic ballparks in the U.S.
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Dad, being an academic, had no idea that Mike's Hard Lemonade contained alcohol. So he brought it back. And the kid was drinking it, and a security guard spotted it, and called the police, who called an ambulance that rushed to the ballpark, whisked the kid to the hospital.
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visible here, which would indicate that they were carved and set up in some sort of building which dates to the reign of Tutankhamun. It's exciting, because that gives us a sort of a ballpark for the time when this site was busy and active and important
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ambulance they rushed to the ballpark whisked the kid to the hospital the emergency room to ascertain that the kid had no alcohol in his blood and they were ready to let the kid go but not so fast the Wayne County Child Welfare protective agency
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with five centimeters of precision. BMI is fairly connected to your lifestyle, but we still can, we get in the ballpark, eight kilograms of precision. Can we predict eye color? Yeah, we can. Eighty percent accuracy. Can we predict skin color?
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the two-percent figure represents only a rough guesstimate. It should be understood as a ballpark figure that can help to frame the kind of political project humanity requires.
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your Why is the thing you give to the world. You can do this with multiple friends and they will say almost exactly, if not the exact same thing, because that is your Why. That is the thing you give to the world. So it may not give you exact language, but it will put you squarely in the ballpark for what your Why is.
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Your calls are being...
by governments in the West and increasingly and everywhere in the world to spine the communications of their own citizens and to spy on the communications of people in other countries for intelligence operations but these devices have been expensive usually somewhere in the ballpark of 50
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Barry Schwartz: Our loss...
Dad, being an academic, had no idea that Mike's Hard Lemonade contained alcohol. So he brought it back. And the kid was drinking it, and a security guard spotted it, and called the police, who called an ambulance that rushed to the ballpark, whisked the kid to the hospital.
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How Tutankhamun Got His...
visible here, which would indicate that they were carved and set up in some sort of building which dates to the reign of Tutankhamun. It's exciting, because that gives us a sort of a ballpark for the time when this site was busy and active and important
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Our loss of wisdom -...
ambulance they rushed to the ballpark whisked the kid to the hospital the emergency room to ascertain that the kid had no alcohol in his blood and they were ready to let the kid go but not so fast the Wayne County Child Welfare protective agency
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How to read the genome...
with five centimeters of precision. BMI is fairly connected to your lifestyle, but we still can, we get in the ballpark, eight kilograms of precision. Can we predict eye color? Yeah, we can. Eighty percent accuracy. Can we predict skin color?
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Safari Live - Day 380 PIPE...
universe it's a very good question we really you never know if if males will be chased away and at what age I mean generally three is the sort of ballpark figure but like I was discussing quite at length this morning there's no set
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was there any ability that they had to even give a rough ballpark estimate of the amount of American communications that were being intercepted. They said no. They said, we don't track those stats, and we can't track those stats.
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You're not even close. If you wanted to get into the right ballpark, you'd have to imagine every grain of sand on every beach, under all the oceans and lakes, and then shrink them all so they fit in here.
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Yuval Noah Harari: The...
the two-percent figure represents only a rough guesstimate. It should be understood as a ballpark figure that can help to frame the kind of political project humanity requires.
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Matt Kemp
American Athlete
If I'm in the car after a bad game, I may think about ways I need to improve. But the second I reach home, the game's over. Work doesn't come inside with me. Same thing in reverse - I don't bring my personal life into the ballpark. Learning to keep it all separate has made life easier.
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Bud Selig
American Celebrity
Money has to be put in the way a club feels it should. If you put money in a new ballpark, that helps to generate revenue so you can spend more money. It should be spent to make the club's operations the best. That will help in the end, and it will mean enhanced payroll.
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Frank Miller
American Artist
I don't own an ounce of the work I've ever done on 'Batman,' and I still work on 'Batman.' I love the character, I think it's a lot of fun, and it's kind of fun to be in that ballpark every once in a while, where you're seeing a different crowd.
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Darin Strauss
American Writer
Memoirs are - memory is - rarely 100 percent accurate. Any autobiography is a construct, ballpark, even unnatural. Private diaries, too, can be unreliable - a detail that matters only if the diary is read.
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Roberto Alomar
American Athlete
To my mom, I don't know how to describe my mom. She is the most wonderful person in my life. She gave me love. She took me to the ballpark when I was just a little boy running around, hanging around.
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Baron Corbin
American Athlete
I really want to test my athletic ability, my toughness, and my skills against those guys who are in my ballpark size-wise.
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Yogi Berra
American Baseball Player
If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?
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Bill Veeck
American Businessman
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Bill Lee
Athlete
You should enter a ballpark the way you enter a church.
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J. D. Martinez
American Athlete
It's fun coming to the ballpark when you're winning.
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Matt Kemp
American Athlete
If I'm in the car after a bad game, I may think about ways I need to improve. But the second I reach home, the game's over. Work doesn't come inside with me. Same thing in reverse - I don't bring my personal life into the ballpark. Learning to keep it all separate has made life easier.
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Bud Selig
American Celebrity
Money has to be put in the way a club feels it should. If you put money in a new ballpark, that helps to generate revenue so you can spend more money. It should be spent to make the club's operations the best. That will help in the end, and it will mean enhanced payroll.
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Frank Miller
American Artist
I don't own an ounce of the work I've ever done on 'Batman,' and I still work on 'Batman.' I love the character, I think it's a lot of fun, and it's kind of fun to be in that ballpark every once in a while, where you're seeing a different crowd.
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Darin Strauss
American Writer
Memoirs are - memory is - rarely 100 percent accurate. Any autobiography is a construct, ballpark, even unnatural. Private diaries, too, can be unreliable - a detail that matters only if the diary is read.
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Roberto Alomar
American Athlete
To my mom, I don't know how to describe my mom. She is the most wonderful person in my life. She gave me love. She took me to the ballpark when I was just a little boy running around, hanging around.
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Baron Corbin
American Athlete
I really want to test my athletic ability, my toughness, and my skills against those guys who are in my ballpark size-wise.
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Yogi Berra
American Baseball Player
If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?
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Bill Veeck
American Businessman
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Bill Lee
Athlete
You should enter a ballpark the way you enter a church.
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J. D. Martinez
American Athlete
It's fun coming to the ballpark when you're winning.
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