(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
A ~ is a group of people, clubs, or countries that have joined together for a particular purpose, or because they share a common interest.
...the League of Nations.
...the World Muslim League.
N-COUNT: oft in names
2.
A ~ is a group of teams that play the same sport or activity against each other.
...the American League series between the Boston Red Sox and World Champion Oakland Athletics...
The club are on the brink of promotion to the Premier League.
N-COUNT
3.
You use the word ~ to make comparisons between different people or things, especially in terms of their quality.
Her success has taken her out of my ~...
Their record sales would put them in the same ~ as The Rolling Stones.
N-COUNT: with supp
4.
If you say that someone is in ~ with another person to do something bad, you mean that they are working together to do that thing.
There is no evidence that the broker was in ~ with the fraudulent vendor...
PHRASE: usu v-link PHR, oft PHR with n