football pitch en · NOUN
Etymology
Compound of football + pitch.
Meanings
- A playing field on which the game of football is played.
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(broadly) An informal unit of measure of area, equal to the area of an Association football pitch (typically 76,900 square feet or 1.76 acres).
New research out this morning shows that roughly 1.8m square metres of office floor space was taken out of use in the UK in the past year. The move, equivalent to 248 football pitches,[…]
2022 November 26, Michiel Willems, “Hybrid jobs: 248 football pitches of office space has simply vanished”, in cityam.com:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| football pitches | Number=Plur | lexicographic |