From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishthe minorsthe minorsx-refthe Minor Leagues → minor
Examples from the Corpus
the minors• He came up from the minors, directing martial-arts movies.• He and pitcher Doug Johns met in the minors and became roommates.• Gerard King and Kareem Townes, the Lakers' final training-camp cuts, are thriving in the minors.• In the minors, he hung out with the greatest athlete of our time.• But his message was clear: Television amounted to little more than the minors, compared with the major leagues of movies.• Although they've ended up at the same spot in their careers, they progressed through the minors at different rates. 