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match noun ( COMPETITION )
/mætʃ/ n Definition
[C] mainly UK (US usually game) a sports competition or event in which two people or teams compete against each other
a football/cricket/tennis match
We won/lost the match.
Liverpool have a match with (= against) Blackburn next week.
the man/woman of the match mainly UK
the person who has scored the most points or played the best in a match
(Definition of match noun (COMPETITION) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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