"first team" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: first teams [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} first team (plural first teams)
  1. (sports) The first-choice lineup of players in a team who start the game. Translations (sports: first-choice lineup): 一軍 (ichigun) (alt: いちぐん) (Japanese), 일군 (ilgun) (alt: 一軍) (Korean)
    Sense id: en-first_team-en-noun-N3zpoY3m Categories (other): Sports Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports Disambiguation of 'sports: first-choice lineup': 94 6
  2. (film) The actors who will actually appear in a scene, as opposed to the stand-ins, or second team, who take their places for the purpose of setting up the shot.
    Sense id: en-first_team-en-noun-PSm8lEdl Categories (other): Film, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Korean translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 31 69 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 23 77 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 23 77 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 23 77 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 24 76 Disambiguation of Terms with Korean translations: 28 72 Topics: broadcasting, film, media, television
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: first-teamer

Inflected forms

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