playoff

playoff

See also: play-off and play off

English

Alternative forms

• play-off

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒf

Noun

playoff (plural playoffs)

1. A final game in a series needed to break a tie.
2. (US) A short series of games to select a league champion.

Translations

series game

Bulgarian: плейоф m (plejof), мач на елиминация (mač na eliminacija) Chinese: Mandarin: 季後賽／季后赛 (zh) (jìhòusài), 附加賽／附加赛 (zh) (fùjiāsài) Finnish: pudotuspelit, pudotuspeli (fi) Japanese: プレーオフ (purēofu) Kazakh: плей-офф (plei-off) Korean: 플레이오프 (ko) (peulleiopeu) Macedonian: плејоф m (plejof) Polish: baraż (pl) m, repasaż m Portuguese: play-off m, playoff m Russian: плей-офф (ru) m (plej-off) Swedish: utslagsmatch, playoff-match

See also

• play off

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Italian

Alternative forms

• play-off

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English playoff.

Noun

playoff m pl (plural only)

1. (sports) playoff

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Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English playoff.

Noun

playoff m (plural playoffs)

1. Alternative form of play-off

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Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English playoff.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pleˈʝof/ [pleˈʝof]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /pleˈʝof/ [pleˈʝof]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /pleˈʃof/ [pleˈʃof]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /pleˈʒof/ [pleˈʒof]

• Rhymes: -of

Noun

playoff m (plural playoffs)

1. (sports) playoff

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.