free up cap space
free up cap space
In sports management, to increase the amount of money that a professional team has available to spend on players' salaries, such as by trading or releasing players. (A salary cap is a limit on the total amount of money that a team can spend on players' salaries.) The team released a few players to free up enough cap space to sign its star center.
See also: cap, free, space, up
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- cap space
- clear waivers
- waiver
- hike
- on waivers
- have a lot of promise
- a lot of promise
- lot of promise
- another string to (one's) bow
- another string to your bow