batting order

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   (baseball) a list of batters in the order in which they will bat

   “the managers presented their cards to the umpire at home plate”

   Synonymscardlineup

   Broaderroll

   Partscleanup

   baseball

Questions about batting order

What does batting order mean?

batting order means "(baseball) a list of batters in the order in which they will bat".

What is another word for batting order?

Close synonyms include card, lineup. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is batting order a common word?

batting order is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.