home stand

noun

: a series of baseball games played at a team's home field

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The Warriors are hoping Green could provide a consistent defensive spark that the team has struggled to find over the team’s home stand. Nathan Canilao, The Mercury News, 2 Feb. 2025 The grief of losing my childhood home, and the grief of seeing the little hill on which my childhood home stands gradually parceled out and excavated to make way for new housing estates. Zining Mok, Longreads, 22 Oct. 2024 The Sacramento Kings started a home stand Monday by beating the Memphis Grizzlies 132-122, but the organization’s most impressive effort might have been taking single-shot drone footage of the purple beam being lit inside and outside at Golden 1 Center. David Caraccio, Sacramento Bee, 18 Mar. 2025 Minnesota is 0-2 amid its current five-game home stand, with losses to Sacramento and Washington, two contests in which the Wolves were favored. Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 4 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for home stand

Word History

First Known Use

1965, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of home stand was in 1965

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“Home stand.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/home%20stand. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.

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