farm team

1. 1.

   a minor-league team that is owned by a major-league team (especially in baseball)

   Synonymsfarm club

   Broaderminor-league team

   baseball

Questions about farm team

What does farm team mean?

farm team means "a minor-league team that is owned by a major-league team (especially in baseball)".

What is another word for farm team?

Close synonyms include farm club. 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 farm team a common word?

farm team is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.