PLAYOFF

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Any final competition to determine a championship

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("playoff" is a kind of...):

competition; contest (an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants)

Meronyms (parts of "playoff"):

playoff game (one game in the series of games constituting a playoff)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "playoff"):

World Series (series that constitutes the playoff for the baseball championship)

Derivation:

play off (set into opposition or rivalry)