ballpark

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a place with a field for playing ball games, especially baseball games, and seats around it for people who are watching:

Some people were selling tickets outside the ballpark.

The stadium will be replaced by a new ballpark with better facilities.

A ballpark estimate or figure is a number that is a guess, but one that you believe is near the correct number:

We'll have to go away and cost this carefully, but as a ballpark figure I'd say that it'll be about two million dollars.

a large structure enclosing a field on which games, esp. baseball games, are played

an acceptable range in the amount or number of something when you do not know or cannot agree on an exact amount or number:

I’d sell the house for $500,000, but his offer isn’t even in the ballpark.

A ballpark figure of $3,000 would be realistic.

to be of a similar amount or at a similar level:

The monthly costs of cable and satellite service are generally in the same ballpark for comparable packages.

to be close to the correct amount:

Accounts receivable may be less than the printed numbers, but they're in the right ballpark.

a ballpark cost or figure is a number that is a guess, but that you believe is near the correct number:

Do you have a ballpark figure of what the tax increases will be?

a ballpark estimate