age-group

noun

: a segment of a population that is of approximately the same age or is within a specified range of ages

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Nsue represented Spain age-group teams, including at an Under-21 European Championship. Graham Dunbar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2024 Villa signed the Scotland youth international from Rangers in July 2022, following an age-group campaign which saw Wilson rack up 49 goals. The Athletic Staff, The Athletic, 13 Aug. 2024 Because the Olympics are an age-group tournament in men’s soccer, the 18-man roster was limited to players born on or after Jan. 1, 2001, with three overage exceptions. Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2024 Fast forward a few years and Bounds, previously a sedentary and unathletic journalist in her mid 40s, has transformed herself into world-class age-group obstacle course racer. Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 3 July 2024 How’s that for engendering self-confidence and personal responsibility in the precise age-group that needs it the most? Deborah Alexander, New York Daily News, 13 June 2024 The prospect of shrinking manpower does not look any better when broken down into subsidiary age-group components. Nicholas Eberstadt, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2010 Ordóñez and Pelayo were both called up to U.S. age-group national teams but chose to leave and play for Mexico at the senior level. Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024 Mary Cain was the youngest ever US track and field athlete to make the World Championships team, a teenage phenomenon who held several national age-group records in middle-distance running. Issy Ronald, CNN, 15 Feb. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1893, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of age-group was in 1893

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“Age-group.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/age-group. Accessed 15 Dec. 2024.

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