League-table meaning

A list that shows how various investment banks stack up against their competitors in a variety of categories, such as mergers, debt, equity, and initial public offerings. Thomson Corp. has software that tracks the deal data and that produces league tables. In recent years, other competitors have launched competing products. Information providers such as Thomson charge a yearly fee to corporations to access their database, using Internet-based software, in order to create the league tables.
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(sports) A tabular display of the teams in some league, together with details of matches played, goals scored, points awarded etc.
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(chiefly UK) Such a listing of hospitals, schools and other institutions showing their ranking according to various indicators of performance.
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League-table Sentence Examples

  • The League table may take a few days to update after a fixture and the gossip column is purely for speculative purposes.

  • To tackle the menace, ministers promised a crackdown on poor hygiene with hospitals ranked in a league table of cleanliness.

  • seventh in a national league table.

  • The Group ranks twelfth in the regional league table of newspaper publishing houses in the UK.

  • Cambridgeshire 's performance in stripping the wealth from drugs dealers and other major lawbreakers has put it seventh in a national league table.

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