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noun Sports.

a new team in a league, composed largely of players from established league teams and formed when the league expands its membership.

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Origin of expansion team

First recorded in 1965–70

Words nearby expansion team

expansion card, expansion chamber, expansionism, expansion joint, expansion slot, expansion team, expansion wave, expansive, expansive bit, expansive classification, expansively

How to use expansion team in a sentence

It’s hard to believe that an expansion team has so quickly established itself as one of the best teams in the NHL, but here we are.
Can The Lightning Three-Peat? How Good Will The Kraken Be? The Storylines To Follow This NHL Season.|Terrence Doyle|October 11, 2021|FiveThirtyEight
The era of expansion teams needing a handful of years to become competitive was over — it was this dynamic that allowed the Vegas Golden Knights to reach the Stanley Cup Final in their first year of existence.
How Our NHL Predictions Work|Ryan Best (ryan.best@abc.com)|October 7, 2021|FiveThirtyEight
For Elo’s purposes, we didn’t want to necessarily overreact — and overfit — to Vegas’s instant success, but it’s plain that the days of terrible expansion teams are over in a modern, salary-capped NHL that charges $650 million expansion fees.
What Our New NHL Forecast Says About This Season|Neil Paine (neil.paine@fivethirtyeight.com)|October 7, 2021|FiveThirtyEight
The Vegas Golden Knights — the NHL’s most recent expansion team before the soon-to-debut Kraken — flipped the struggling expansion team trope on its head when they hit the ice in 2017.
The Seattle Kraken Have An Expansion Blueprint. Can They Follow Vegas And Build A Winner?|Marisa Ingemi|July 14, 2021|FiveThirtyEight

The same year Tepper bought the Panthers, the NHL’s newest hockey team, the Las Vegas Golden Knights, accomplished what only one expansion team had done before by making it to the league finals in its inaugural season.
The Billionaire Playbook: How Sports Owners Use Their Teams to Avoid Millions in Taxes|by Robert Faturechi, Justin Elliott and Ellis Simani|July 8, 2021|ProPublica
But if Democrats are faced with the reality of a glut of qualified candidates, Republicans are assembling more of a fantasy team.
The Golden State Preps for the ‘Red Wedding’ of Senate Races|David Freedlander|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Weeks retained an unparalleled legal team, which included bitter political rivals Hamilton and Burr.
New York’s Most Tragic Ghost Loves Minimalist Swedish Fashion|Nina Strochlic|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
But I think Steve Austin has to team up with a Japanese holdout to stop a nuclear bomb from going off or something.
‘Archer’ Creator Adam Reed Spills Season 6 Secrets, From Surreal Plotlines to Life Post-ISIS|Marlow Stern|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The following page details a tribute gag the Simpsons team inserted into the background of a scene.
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Alpha Team was killed, Faal told the FBI, while the Bravo members who were not gunned down fled.
The Shadowy U.S. Veteran Who Tried to Overthrow a Country|Jacob Siegel|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Accordingly, she had the boys to hitch a team to a buggy and took him driving over the great estate.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux
This engine only took steam during the first quarter of its stroke, the remaining three-quarters were by the expansion.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2)|Francis Trevithick
This most simple steam-engine combined in the greatest degree the two elements of expansion and momentum.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2)|Francis Trevithick
Well, from what little I've seen and heard of him, he'd be a whole team if he's willing to throw in with us and take a chance.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
You had better go to him, Dolly, and bid him good bye, before he takes the team to the field.
The World Before Them|Susanna Moodie